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View SchemaConstant-temperature molecular-dynamics algorithms for mixed hard-core/continuous potentials
| Authors | Yao A. Houndonougbo, Brian B. Laird |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0204028 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0204028 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.1485072 |
Abstract
We present a set of second-order, time-reversible algorithms for the isothermal (NVT) molecular-dynamics (MD) simulation of systems with mixed hard-core/continuous potentials. The methods are generated by combining real-time Nose' thermostats with our previously developed Collision Verlet algorithm [Mol. Phys. 98, 309 (1999)] for constant energy MD simulation of such systems. In all we present 5 methods, one based on the Nose'-Hoover [Phys. Rev. A 31, 1695 (1985)] equations of motion and four based on the Nose'-Poincare' [J.Comp.Phys., 151 114 (1999)] real-time formulation of Nose' dynamics. The methods are tested using a system of hard spheres with attractive tails and all correctly reproduce a canonical distribution of instantaneous temperature. The Nose'-Hoover based method and two of the Nose'-Poincare' methods are shown to have good energy conservation in long simulations.
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