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<H3>fix nvt command
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<P><B>Syntax:</B>
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<PRE>fix ID group-ID nvt Tstart Tstop Tdamp keyword value ...
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<UL><LI>ID, group-ID are documented in <A HREF = "fix.html">fix</A> command
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<LI>nvt = style name of this fix command
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<LI>Tstart,Tstop = desired temperature at start/end of run
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<LI>Tdamp = temperature damping parameter (time units)
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<LI>zero or more keyword/value pairs may be appended
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<LI>keyword = <I>drag</I> or <I>chain</I>
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<PRE> <I>drag</I> value = drag factor added to thermostat (0.0 = no drag)
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<I>chain</I> value = <I>yes</I> or <I>no</I>
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</PRE>
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</UL>
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<P><B>Examples:</B>
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<PRE>fix 1 all nvt 300.0 300.0 100.0
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fix 1 all nvt 300.0 300.0 100.0 drag 0.2 chain no
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</PRE>
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<P><B>Description:</B>
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<P>Perform constant NVT integration to update positions and velocities
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each timestep for atoms in the group using a Nose/Hoover temperature
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thermostat <A HREF = "#Hoover">(Hoover)</A>. V is volume; T is temperature. This
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creates a system trajectory consistent with the canonical ensemble.
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</P>
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<P>The thermostat is applied to only the translational degrees of freedom
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for the particles. The translational degrees of freedom can also have
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a bias velocity removed from them before thermostatting takes place;
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see the description below.
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</P>
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<P>The desired temperature at each timestep is a ramped value during the
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run from <I>Tstart</I> to <I>Tstop</I>. The <I>Tdamp</I> parameter is specified in
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time units and determines how rapidly the temperature is relaxed. For
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example, a value of 100.0 means to relax the temperature in a timespan
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of (roughly) 100 time units (tau or fmsec or psec - see the
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<A HREF = "units.html">units</A> command).
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</P>
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<P>The <I>chain</I> keyword determines whether Nose/Hoover chains are used or
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not. If <I>chain</I> is specified as <I>no</I>, then the original Nose/Hoover
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formulation is used. If <I>chain</I> is specified as <I>yes</I>, which is the
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default, then chains as described in <A HREF = "#Martyna">(Martyna)</A> are used
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which include extra non-physical variables which couple to the
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thermostat. Nose/Hoover chains provide a more robust NVT integrator,
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overcoming non-ergodic sampling issues and energy oscillations found
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with ordinary Nose/Hoover dynamics. Our implementation uses one chain
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and integrates the equations of motion via a Trotter expansion good to
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2nd order accuracy in the timestep size.
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</P>
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<P>In some cases (e.g. for solids) the temperature of the system can
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oscillate undesirably when a Nose/Hoover thermostat is applied, though
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this should be less of a problem if Nose/Hoover chains are used. The
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optional <I>drag</I> keyword will damp these oscillations in an ad-hoc
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fashion, by altering the Nose/Hoover equations so that they no longer
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exactly sample the canonical ensemble. A value of 0.0 (no drag)
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leaves the Nose/Hoover formalism unchanged. A non-zero value adds a
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drag term; the larger the value specified, the greater the damping
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effect. Performing a short run and monitoring the temperature is the
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best way to determine if the drag term is working. Typically a value
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between 0.2 to 2.0 is sufficient to damp oscillations after a few
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periods.
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</P>
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<P>IMPORTANT NOTE: Unlike the <A HREF = "fix_berendsen.html">fix temp/berendsen</A>
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command which performs thermostatting but NO time integration, this
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fix performs thermostatting/barostatting AND time integration. Thus
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you should not use any other time integration fix, such as <A HREF = "fix_nve.html">fix
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nve</A> on atoms to which this fix is applied. Likewise,
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this fix should not normally be used on atoms that also have their
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temperature controlled by another fix - e.g. by <A HREF = "fix_nvt.html">fix
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langevin</A> or <A HREF = "fix_temp_rescale.html">fix temp/rescale</A>
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commands.
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</P>
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<P>See <A HREF = "Section_howto.html#4_16">this howto section</A> of the manual for a
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discussion of different ways to compute temperature and perform
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thermostatting.
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</P>
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<P>This fix computes a temperature each timestep. To do this, the fix
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creates its own compute of style "temp", as if this command had been
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issued:
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<PRE>compute fix-ID_temp group-ID temp
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<P>See the <A HREF = "compute_temp.html">compute temp</A> command for details. Note
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that the ID of the new compute is the fix-ID + underscore + "temp",
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and the group for the new compute is the same as the fix group.
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</P>
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<P>Note that this is NOT the compute used by thermodynamic output (see
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the <A HREF = "thermo_style.html">thermo_style</A> command) with ID = <I>thermo_temp</I>.
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This means you can change the attributes of this fix's temperature
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(e.g. its degrees-of-freedom) via the
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<A HREF = "compute_modify.html">compute_modify</A> command or print this temperature
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during thermodynamic output via the <A HREF = "thermo_style.html">thermo_style
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custom</A> command using the appropriate compute-ID.
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It also means that changing attributes of <I>thermo_temp</I> will have no
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effect on this fix.
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</P>
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<P>Like other fixes that perform thermostatting, this fix can be used
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with <A HREF = "compute.html">compute commands</A> that calculate a temperature
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after removing a "bias" from the atom velocities. E.g. removing the
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center-of-mass velocity from a group of atoms or only calculating
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temperature on the x-component of velocity or only calculating
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temperature for atoms in a geometric region. This is not done by
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default, but only if the <A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A> command is used
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to assign a temperature compute to this fix that includes such a bias
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term. See the doc pages for individual <A HREF = "compute.html">compute
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commands</A> to determine which ones include a bias. In
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this case, the thermostat works in the following manner: the current
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temperature is calculated taking the bias into account, bias is
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removed from each atom, thermostatting is performed on the remaining
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thermal degrees of freedom, and the bias is added back in.
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</P>
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<P><B>Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info:</B>
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</P>
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<P>This fix writes the state of the Nose/Hoover thermostat to <A HREF = "restart.html">binary
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restart files</A>. See the <A HREF = "read_restart.html">read_restart</A>
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command for info on how to re-specify a fix in an input script that
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reads a restart file, so that the operation of the fix continues in an
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uninterrupted fashion.
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</P>
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<P>The <A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A> <I>temp</I> option is supported by this
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fix. You can use it to assign a temperature <A HREF = "compute.html">compute</A>
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you have defined to this fix which will be used in its thermostatting
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procedure, as described above. For consistency, the group used by
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this fix and by the compute should be the same.
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</P>
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<P>The <A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A> <I>energy</I> option is supported by this
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fix to add the energy change induced by Nose/Hoover thermostatting to
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the system's potential energy as part of <A HREF = "thermo_style.html">thermodynamic
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output</A>.
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</P>
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<P>The cummulative energy change due to this fix is stored as a scalar
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quantity, which can be accessed by various <A HREF = "Section_howto.html#4_15">output
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commands</A>. The scalar value calculated by
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this fix is "extensive", meaning it scales with the number of atoms in
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the simulation.
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</P>
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<P>This fix can ramp its target temperature over multiple runs, using the
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<I>start</I> and <I>stop</I> keywords of the <A HREF = "run.html">run</A> command. See the
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<A HREF = "run.html">run</A> command for details of how to do this.
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</P>
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<P>This fix is not invoked during <A HREF = "minimize.html">energy minimization</A>.
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</P>
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<P><B>Restrictions:</B>
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<P>The final Tstop cannot be 0.0 since it would make the target T = 0.0
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at some timestep during the simulation which is not allowed in
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the Nose/Hoover formulation.
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</P>
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<P><B>Related commands:</B>
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</P>
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<P><A HREF = "fix_nve.html">fix nve</A>, <A HREF = "fix_npt.html">fix npt</A>, <A HREF = "fix_temp_rescale.html">fix
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temp/rescale</A>, <A HREF = "fix_langevin.html">fix langevin</A>,
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<A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A>, <A HREF = "compute_temp.html">compute temp</A>
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</P>
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<P><B>Default:</B>
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</P>
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<P>The keyword defaults are drag = 0.0 and chain = yes.
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</P>
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<A NAME = "Hoover"></A>
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<P><B>(Hoover)</B> Hoover, Phys Rev A, 31, 1695 (1985).
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<A NAME = "Martyna"></A>
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<P><B>(Martyna)</B> Martyna, Klein, Tuckerman, J Chem Phys, 97, 2635 (1992);
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Martyna, Tuckerman, Tobias, Klein, Mol Phys, 87, 1117.
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