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<CENTER><A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A> - <A HREF = "Manual.html">LAMMPS Documentation</A> - <A HREF = "Section_commands.html#comm">LAMMPS Commands</A>
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<H3>fix nvt/sphere command
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<H3>fix nvt/sphere/omp command
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<P><B>Syntax:</B>
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<PRE>fix ID group-ID nvt/sphere keyword value ...
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</PRE>
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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/sphere = style name of this fix command
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<LI>additional thermostat related keyword/value pairs from the <A HREF = "fix_nh.html">fix nvt</A> command can be appended
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</UL>
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<P><B>Examples:</B>
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<PRE>fix 1 all nvt/sphere temp 300.0 300.0 100.0
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fix 1 all nvt/sphere temp 300.0 300.0 100.0 drag 0.2
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</PRE>
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<P><B>Description:</B>
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</P>
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<P>Perform constant NVT integration to update position, velocity, and
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angular velocity each timestep for finite-size spherical particles in
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the group using a Nose/Hoover temperature thermostat. V is volume; T
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is temperature. This creates a system trajectory consistent with the
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canonical ensemble.
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</P>
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<P>This fix differs from the <A HREF = "fix_nh.html">fix nvt</A> command, which
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assumes point particles and only updates their position and velocity.
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</P>
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<P>The thermostat is applied to both the translational and rotational
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degrees of freedom for the spherical particles, assuming a compute is
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used which calculates a temperature that includes the rotational
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degrees of freedom (see below). The translational degrees of freedom
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can also have a bias velocity removed from them before thermostatting
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takes place; see the description below.
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</P>
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<P>Additional parameters affecting the thermostat are specified by
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keywords and values documented with the <A HREF = "fix_nh.html">fix nvt</A>
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command. See, for example, discussion of the <I>temp</I> and <I>drag</I>
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keywords.
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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/sphere", as if this command
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had been issued:
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</P>
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<PRE>compute fix-ID_temp group-ID temp/sphere
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</PRE>
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<P>See the <A HREF = "compute_temp_sphere.html">compute temp/sphere</A> command for
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details. Note that the ID of the new compute is the fix-ID +
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underscore + "temp", and the group for the new compute is the same as
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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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<HR>
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<P>Styles with a <I>cuda</I>, <I>gpu</I>, <I>omp</I>, or <I>opt</I> suffix are functionally
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the same as the corresponding style without the suffix. They have
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been optimized to run faster, depending on your available hardware, as
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discussed in <A HREF = "Section_accelerate.html">Section_accelerate</A> of the
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manual. The accelerated styles take the same arguments and should
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produce the same results, except for round-off and precision issues.
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</P>
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<P>These accelerated styles are part of the USER-CUDA, GPU, USER-OMP and OPT
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packages, respectively. They are only enabled if LAMMPS was built with
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those packages. See the <A HREF = "Section_start.html#start_3">Making LAMMPS</A>
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section for more info.
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</P>
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<P>You can specify the accelerated styles explicitly in your input script
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by including their suffix, or you can use the <A HREF = "Section_start.html#start_7">-suffix command-line
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switch</A> when you invoke LAMMPS, or you can
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use the <A HREF = "suffix.html">suffix</A> command in your input script.
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</P>
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<P>See <A HREF = "Section_accelerate.html">Section_accelerate</A> of the manual for
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more instructions on how to use the accelerated styles effectively.
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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 <A HREF = "compute.html">compute</A> you have
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defined to this fix which will be used in its thermostatting
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procedure.
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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>This fix computes the same global scalar and global vector of
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quantities as does the <A HREF = "fix_nh.html">fix nvt</A> command.
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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>
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<P>This fix requires that atoms store torque and angular velocity (omega)
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and a radius as defined by the <A HREF = "atom_style.html">atom_style sphere</A>
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command.
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</P>
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<P>All particles in the group must be finite-size spheres. They cannot
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be point particles.
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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_nh.html">fix nvt</A>, <A HREF = "fix_nve_sphere.html">fix nve_sphere</A>, <A HREF = "fix_nvt_asphere.html">fix
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nvt_asphere</A>, <A HREF = "fix_npt_sphere.html">fix
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npt_sphere</A>, <A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A>
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</P>
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<P><B>Default:</B> none
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