pair_style lj/mdf command

pair_style buck/mdf command

pair_style lennard/mdf command

Syntax

pair_style style args

  • style = lj/mdf or buck/mdf or lennard/mdf

  • args = list of arguments for a particular style

    lj/mdf args = cutoff1 cutoff2
  cutoff1 = inner cutoff for the start of the tapering function
  cutoff1 = out cutoff for the end of the tapering function
buck/mdf args = cutoff1 cutoff2
  cutoff1 = inner cutoff for the start of the tapering function
  cutoff1 = out cutoff for the end of the tapering function
lennard/mdf args = cutoff1 cutoff2
  cutoff1 = inner cutoff for the start of the tapering function
  cutoff1 = out cutoff for the end of the tapering function

Examples

pair_style lj/mdf 2.5 3.0
pair_coeff * * 1.0 1.0
pair_coeff 1 1 1.1 2.8 3.0 3.2

pair_style buck 2.5 3.0
pair_coeff * * 100.0 1.5 200.0
pair_coeff * * 100.0 1.5 200.0 3.0 3.5

pair_style lennard/mdf 2.5 3.0
pair_coeff * * 1.0 1.0
pair_coeff 1 1 1021760.3664 2120.317338 3.0 3.2

Description

The lj/mdf, buck/mdf and lennard/mdf compute the standard 12-6 Lennard-Jones and Buckingham potential with the addition of a taper function that ramps the energy and force smoothly to zero between an inner and outer cutoff.

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The tapering, f(r), is done by using the Mei, Davenport, Fernando function (Mei).

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where

_images/pair_mdf-3.jpg

Here r_m is the inner cutoff radius and r_cut is the outer cutoff radius.

For the lj/mdf pair_style, the potential energy, E(r), is the standard 12-6 Lennard-Jones written in the epsilon/sigma form:

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Either the first two or all of the following coefficients must be defined for each pair of atoms types via the pair_coeff command as in the examples above, or in the data file read by the read_data. The two cutoffs default to the global values and epsilon and sigma can also be determined by mixing as described below:

  • epsilon (energy units)

  • sigma (distance units)

  • r_m (distance units)

  • r_cut (distance units)

For the buck/mdf pair_style, the potential energy, E(r), is the standard Buckingham potential with three required coefficients. The two cutoffs can be omitted and default to the corresponding global values:

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  • A (energy units)

  • rho (distance units)

  • C (energy-distance^6 units)

  • r_m (distance units)

  • r_cut (distance units)

For the lennard/mdf pair_style, the potential energy, E(r), is the standard 12-6 Lennard-Jones written in the A/B form:

_images/pair_mdf-6.jpg

The following coefficients must be defined for each pair of atoms types via the pair_coeff command as in the examples above, or in the data file read by the read_data commands, or by mixing as described below. The two cutoffs default to their global values and must be either both given or both left out:

  • A (energy-distance^12 units)

  • B (energy-distance^6 units)

  • r_m (distance units)

  • r_cut (distance units)

Mixing, shift, table, tail correction, restart, rRESPA info:

For atom type pairs I,J and I != J, the epsilon and sigma coefficients and cutoff distances for the lj/mdf pair style can be mixed. The default mix value is geometric. See the “pair_modify” command for details. The other two pair styles buck/mdf and lennard/mdf do not support mixing, so all I,J pairs of coefficients must be specified explicitly.

None of the lj/mdf, buck/mdf, or lennard/mdf pair styles supports the pair_modify shift option or long-range tail corrections to pressure and energy.

These styles write their information to binary restart files, so pair_style and pair_coeff commands do not need to be specified in an input script that reads a restart file.

These styles can only be used via the pair keyword of the run_style respa command. They do not support the inner, middle, outer keywords.

Restrictions

These pair styles can only be used if LAMMPS was built with the USER-MISC package. See the Build package doc page for more info.