Dielectric constants inconsistency

I could be missing something obvious, but it looks to me as though the polycrystalline total and electronic dielectric constants, poly_total and poly_electronic, on the web interface and obtained using the API, are incorrect. The dielectric tensor matrices match those in the separately published dataset (https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.ph81h/3), but the dielectric constants do not. E.g. for mp-567290, the electronic tensor is [7.09, 7.09, 6.94] in both cases, but poly_electronic is 7.04 in the original dataset (which seems right) but 2.35 in the MP (which doesn’t). Additionally, poly_electronic = poly_total for all the entries in the MP.

Hi @dwdavies, thank you for reporting this! This definitely seems to be an error though I agree the tensors themselves look correct. I think @shyamd might be fixing this. We will update this thread once this issue has been addressed.

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An update on this, this has been fixed by @shyamd but has not yet been deployed to the website.