[gmx-users] die-electric constant for water?

[David]

On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 18:53, Rui Qiao wrote:
> Hi, everyone:
> 	I am wondering if some of you know what is the accepted value of
> die-electric constant for SPC/E water at 300K? I got about 81 and I heard
> someone saying that they got 71.
depends (a bit) on how you simulate. Convergence and system size should
be carefully checked. I once had 80 (probably lucky, and probably too
high, using RF, see JCP  108, 10220-10230).

It is probably a bit lower in the limit of inifinite systems.

-- 
Groeten, David.
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