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Action: EFFECTIVE_ENERGY_DRIFT

Module generic
Description Usage
Print the effective energy drift used in 1 tutorialsused in 0 eggs

Details and examples

Print the effective energy drift

The method that is used to calculate the effective energy drift here is described in the paper in the bibliography.

Examples

This input is to monitor the effective energy drift for a metadynamics simulation on the Debye-Huckel energy. Since this variable is very expensive, it could be conveniently computed every second step.

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tested on2.11
dh: DHENERGYCalculate Debye-Huckel interaction energy between the atoms in GROUPA and GROUPB. More details GROUPAFirst list of atoms=1-10 GROUPBSecond list of atoms (if empty, N*(N-1)/2 pairs in GROUPA are counted)=11-20 EPSILON Dielectric constant of solvent=80.0 I Ionic strength (M)=0.1 TEMP Simulation temperature (K)=300.0
METADUsed to performed metadynamics on one or more collective variables. More details ARGthe labels of the scalars on which the bias will act=dh HEIGHTthe heights of the Gaussian hills=0.5 SIGMAthe widths of the Gaussian hills=0.1 PACEthe frequency for hill addition=500 STRIDEthe frequency with which the forces due to the bias should be calculated=2
EFFECTIVE_ENERGY_DRIFTPrint the effective energy drift More details PRINT_STRIDEfrequency to which output the effective energy drift on FILE=100 FILEfile on which to output the effective energy drift=eff

This exampls shows how to monitor if a restraint is too stiff

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tested on2.11
d: DISTANCECalculate the distance/s between pairs of atoms. More details ATOMSthe pair of atom that we are calculating the distance between=10,20
RESTRAINTAdds harmonic and/or linear restraints on one or more variables. More details ARGthe values the harmonic restraint acts upon=d KAPPA specifies that the restraint is harmonic and what the values of the force constants on each of the variables are=100000 ATthe position of the restraint=0.6
EFFECTIVE_ENERGY_DRIFTPrint the effective energy drift More details PRINT_STRIDEfrequency to which output the effective energy drift on FILE=100 FILEfile on which to output the effective energy drift=eff

Full list of keywords

The following table describes the keywords and options that can be used with this action

Keyword Type Default Description
STRIDEThis keyword do not have examples compulsory 1 should be set to 1
FILE compulsory none file on which to output the effective energy drift
PRINT_STRIDE compulsory none frequency to which output the effective energy drift on FILE
ENSEMBLEThis keyword do not have examples optional false Set to TRUE if you want to average over multiple replicas
FMTThis keyword do not have examples optional not used the format that should be used to output real numbers
RESTARTThis keyword do not have examples optional not used allows per-action setting of restart (YES/NO/AUTO)
UPDATE_FROMThis keyword do not have examples optional not used Only update this action from this time
UPDATE_UNTILThis keyword do not have examples optional not used Only update this action until this time

References

More information about how this action can be used is available in the following articles: