Hi Mojtaba,

Polarization is a vector, so negative or positive just indicate its direction. 
So no worries about negative polarization. But in periodic boundary conditions 
you may still need to add (subtract) multiples of the polarization quantum in 
order to get the "reasonable" value of the spontaneous polarization of the 
material.

A favorite of mine which go over some of these difficulties is this  paper:

http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.014113


Mostafa Youssef
MIT


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