Hi Adam,

Thanks for your reply, however, I just need the ground state dipole
moment, and a point of the project is that supercells are avoided, so I
suppose a supercell calculation is not an option. Are you trying to say
that the 'direct' calculation of dipoles (or transition dipoles) using
the wavefunction in Siesta is not advisable?

Heribert


On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 13:45 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Heribert,
> 
> I believe that it is more safe to calculate the dipole transition moment 
> in the velocity representation in a supercell code. For that you 
> need the derivative of the wave functions.
> 
> Yours,
>         Adam

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