From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Thu Sep  6 12:01:00 2012
From: "Bradley Welch bwelch5[a]slu.edu" <owner-chemistry[]server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL:G: ab initio polarizability calculations?
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X-Original-From: "Bradley   Welch" <bwelch5++slu.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:59:41 -0400


Sent to CCL by: "Bradley   Welch" [bwelch5 _ slu.edu]
Hey everyone, 

I've done a few polarizability calculations with Gaussian and other programs. One thing I've noticed is all these programs have to do multiple calculations to give you a polarizability. Is there a paper(or papers) that describes the general method of how these programs calculate polarizability? I'm assuming it has to consider the field in the x,y,z directions, and combinations of others, but I would like to figure out exactly how it does it. I'm not doing frequency dependent polarizability, only the static polarizability. 


Bradley Welch
Saint Louis University.