Table 2. Summary of the technical parameters used for the geometry optimizations and phonon calculations on the studied ice polymorphs.
k-point sampling | ||||
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Phase | Optimization | Phonon | Supercell expansion | No. of supercell molecules |
Ih | 3 × 3 × 2 | 2 × 2 × 1 | 2 × 2 × 2 | 96 |
II | 2 × 2 × 2 | 1 × 1 × 1 | 2 × 2 × 2 | 96 |
XV | 2 × 2 × 3 | 1 × 1 × 2 | 2 × 2 × 2 | 80 |