Need help in calculating epsilon value of peptides

GROMACS version: 2020.4
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Dear gromacs users,

I’m trying to calculate epsilon value of a peptide (frequency based).

So I am running 1ns NPT simulation of the peptide with PME, PBC, and epsilon_r=1 option in .mdp.

There is no solvents in the system and ions were added for charge neutral.

After the md production, I used ‘gmx dipoles’ and ‘gmx dielectric’ in sequence.

The options I used were

'gmx dipoles -corr mol -P 1 -temp 298

gmx dielectric -f epsilon.xvg (from gmx dipoles)’

I think the result after ‘gmx dielectric’ was weird. The epsilon(w) value was oscillating like sin/cos function.

Is something wrong with my simulation and the options?

And how can I obtain the imaginary value of the resultant epsilon?

I really need your help.

Sincerely,

Yeonkyung Lee.