Dear all,<br><br>I tried a test calculation of the dipole moment of water. The water molecule is put into a 20 a.u. ^3 box. The relevant setting are<br><br>lelfield = .true.<br>efield = 0.01<br><br>In the output file, it reports<br>
<br> Electronic Dipole per cell (a.u.) -1.921145549061207<br> Ionic Dipole per cell (a.u.) 116.1997104738884<br><br>How is Electronic Dipole defined here? By looking into the source code, Ionic Dipole is defined as in textbook. I also notice that total energy difference with respect to zero-electric-field system is approximately equal to (Electronic Dipole + Ionic Dipole) * Efield. But Electronic Dipole hardly resembles the experimental dipole of water, which is about 1.85 D. Could anyone explain a bit about these quantities? Thank you!!<br>
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