<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Dear M. Abbasnejad:</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;"><br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span dir="LTR">Trying to calculate the <span>born</span> <span>effective</span> charges of my case, the
obtained diagonalized principal values of effective charge tensor have
imaginary part.</span></blockquote><div>Is the “diagonalized principal values” is calculated by yourself , or it is written in the output file?</div><div>If it is the first occasion, I think it is your fault.</div><div>
Based on the definition of Born effective charge, it is a "<b>real <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.6667px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 25px; ">symmetric matrix</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.6667px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; ">“.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.6667px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; ">The eigen value of real symmetric matrix should not have imaginary part.</span></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>____________________________________<br>Hui Wang<br>School of physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China<br>
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