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Dipole Polarizabilities

Option LATTDR specifies that the ``Lattice Dispersion Relation'' of Draine and Goodman (1993) be employed to determine the dipole polarizabilities.; other possible choices are DRAI88 (prescription used by Draine 1988) and GOBR88 (prescription used by Goedecke & O'Brien 1988 and Hage & Greenberg 1990). In the limit tex2html_wrap_inline3375 (where tex2html_wrap_inline3377 is the wave vector and d is the lattice spacing) all three options converge to the same limit; for |m|kd > 0.1 there are significant differences among them. Consult the paper by Draine & Goodman (1993) for discussion and comparison of these three prescriptions. Option LATTDR is recommended for general use, based upon the tests presented by Draine & Goodman (1993).



Bruce Draine
Thu Aug 10 09:34:16 EDT 2000