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  {{TAGBL|ANDERSEN_PROB}}=0.10                                # collision probability
  {{TAGBL|ANDERSEN_PROB}}=0.10                                # collision probability
  {{TAGBL|HILLS_BIN}}=50                                      # update the time-dependent bias
  {{TAGBL|HILLS_BIN}}=50                                      # update the time-dependent bias
                                                              # potential every 50 steps
                                                      # potential every 50 steps
  {{TAGBL|HILLS_H}}=0.005                                      # height of the Gaussian
  {{TAGBL|HILLS_H}}=0.005                                      # height of the Gaussian
  {{TAGBL|HILLS_W}}=0.05                                      # width of the Gaussian
  {{TAGBL|HILLS_W}}=0.05                                      # width of the Gaussian

Revision as of 10:26, 30 September 2019

Task

In this example the nucleophile substitution of a Cl- by another Cl- in CH3Cl via meta dynamics is simulated using two collective variables simultaneously.

Input

POSCAR

   1.00000000000000
     9.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    9.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    9.0000000000000000
   C    H    Cl
   1   3   2
Direct
  0.1570348572197245  0.2904054711139102  0.1422643997559632
  0.1466469234176954  0.4066467848992589  0.1077433527138946
  0.0469134772399311  0.2399491465236156  0.1544210764126938
  0.2197893311177821  0.2820094213788985  0.2462070949679763
  0.9809163623144840  0.4723904404063168  0.3674924467383788
  0.2601754409903839  0.1874592103557934  0.9964911656110944

KPOINTS

Automatic
 0
Gamma
 1  1  1
 0. 0. 0.
  • For isolated atoms and molecules interactions between periodic images are negligible (in sufficiently large cells) hence no Brillouin zone sampling is necessary.

INCAR

PREC=Low
EDIFF=1e-6
LWAVE=.FALSE.
LCHARG=.FALSE.
NELECT=22
NELMIN=4
LREAL=.FALSE.
ALGO=VeryFast
ISMEAR=-1
SIGMA=0.0516

############################# MD setting #####################################
IBRION=0                                           # MD simulation
NSW=1000                                           # number of steps
POTIM=1                                            # integration step
TEBEG=600                                          # simulation temperature
MDALGO=11                                          # metaDynamics with Andersen thermostat
ANDERSEN_PROB=0.10                                 # collision probability
HILLS_BIN=50                                       # update the time-dependent bias
                                                     # potential every 50 steps
HILLS_H=0.005                                      # height of the Gaussian
HILLS_W=0.05                                       # width of the Gaussian
##############################################################################

ICONST

R 1 5 5
R 1 6 5
  • In contrast to the previous examples two collective variables are used simultaneously (and no combination of them).

PENALTYPOT

   5.00000   1.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   2.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   3.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   4.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   1.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   2.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   3.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   4.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000

Calculation

Running the calculation

The mass for hydrogen in this example is set 3.016 a.u. corresponding to the tritium isotope. This way larger timesteps can be chosen for the MD.

The bias potential is specified in the PENALTYPOT file.

For practical reasons, we split our (presumably long) meta dynamics calculation into shorter runs of length of 1000 fs (NSW=1000; POTIM=1). At the end of each run the HILLSPOT file (containing bias potential generated in previous run) must be copied to the PENALTYPOT file (the input file with bias potential) - this is done automatically in the script run which looks as follows:

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