Dear Siesta users,

I have some questions:

1.      I have relaxed unitcell of MoS2, until atom forces are lower than
0.001 A/eV. Type of basis sets and mesh cut-off and k-point sampling of the
Brillouin zone are determined by the total energy convergence tests. In my
knowledge, the electric dipole (for the studied system) and stress tensor
must be zero after the geometry relaxation. Are they correct?

2.      At next step, I have relaxed unitcell of MoS2 under the planar
strain, Since Mo-S bonds become ionic, from the charge transfer between Mo
and S atoms after applying stress, I expect to obtain the electric dipole
parallel to MoS2 monolayer. Despite my expectations, I have obtained along
z directions in all the studied cases (various values of strengths). Do you
have any suggestions? Moreover,  I have saw the following issue In the
mailing list,   "In a bulk solid the dipole cannot be computed simply by a
naive moment of the density. It only makes sense to compute the dipole in
directions orthogonal to any periodicities of the system."  but, my system
is slab, so its electric dipole must be correct.



Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Nadia Salami

PhD student

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