How to calculate polarizability


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I was able to run your input file (with the addition of symmetry c6) without issue using NWChem v6.6 (well almost without issue, the symmetry output for TDDFT produced some unintelligible characters, but the numbers all looked reasonable). Perhaps you have a compilation issue or some other issue that has to do with the system your are running on. Was there another file that might contain error information? If you ran this on a cluster, this would potentially be a file from the scheduler. If you ran this on a personal computer this would have been printed to the screen, unless you redirected standard error to a file.

An additional note, your input will not produce the polarizability. You need to call task dft property not task tddft energy. You also do not need the TDDFT input block to calculate the polarizability.