HELIUM

The section that controls optional helium solvent environment (highly experimental, not for general use yet) [Edit on GitHub]

Keywords

Keyword descriptions

SECTION_PARAMETERS

Type: logical
Default: F
Lone keyword: T
Usage: silent

Description: Whether or not to actually use this section

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CELL_SHAPE

Type: enum
Default: CUBE
Usage: CELL_SHAPE (CUBE|OCTAHEDRON)

Description: PBC unit cell shape for helium

Valid values:

  • CUBE

  • OCTAHEDRON

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CELL_SIZE

Type: real
Default: [angstrom]

Description: PBC unit cell size (NOTE 1: density, number of atoms and volume are interdependent - give only two of them; NOTE 2: for small cell sizes specify NATOMS instead)

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COORD_INIT_TEMP

Type: real
Default: 3.00000000E+002 [K]

Description: Temperature for thermal gaussian initialization of the helium. Negative values correspond to a hot start.

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DENSITY

Type: real
Default: 2.18600000E-002 [angstrom^-3]

Description: trial density of helium for determining the helium box size

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DROPLET_RADIUS

Type: real
Default: 9.51298235E+307 [angstrom]

Description: Reject a move if any of the new positions does not lie within this range from the center of gravity

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GET_FORCES

Type: enum
Default: AVERAGE
Usage: GET_FORCES (AVERAGE|LAST)

Description: Get average MC forces or last MC forces to propagate MD

Valid values:

  • AVERAGE

  • LAST

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HELIUM_ONLY

Type: logical
Default: F
Lone keyword: T

Description: Simulate helium solvent only, disregard solute entirely

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INTERACTION_POT_SCAN

Type: logical
Default: F
Lone keyword: T

Description: Scan solute-helium interaction potential, cubefile parameters set in subsection RHO

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NATOMS

Type: integer
Default: 64

Description: Number of helium atoms

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NBEADS

Type: integer
Default: 25

Description: Number of helium path integral beads

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NUM_ENV

Type: integer
Default: 1

Description: Number of independent helium environments

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N_INNER

Type: integer
Default: 6600
Aliases: INOROT

Description: Number of MC iterations at the same time slice(s) (number of inner MC loop iterations)

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N_OUTER

Type: integer
Default: 300
Aliases: IROT

Description: how often to reselect the time slice(s) to work on (number of outer MC loop iterations)

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PERIODIC

Type: logical
Default: F

Description: Use periodic boundary conditions for helium

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POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME

Type: string
Default: HELIUM.POT

Description: Name of the Helium interaction potential file

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PRESAMPLE

Type: logical
Default: F

Description: Presample He coordinates before first PIMD step

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RNG_SEED

Type: integer
Default: 12345
Usage: RNG_SEED

Description: Initial seed for the (pseudo)random number generator that controls helium coordinate generation and propagation.

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SAMPLING_METHOD

Type: enum
Default: CEPERLEY
Usage: SAMPLING_METHOD (CEPERLEY|WORM)

Description: Choose between Ceperley or the worm algorithm

Valid values:

  • CEPERLEY

  • WORM

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SOLUTE_INTERACTION

Type: enum
Default: NONE
Usage: SOLUTE_INTERACTION (NONE | MWATER | NNP)

Description: Interaction potential between helium and the solute

Valid values:

  • NONE No interaction with solute

  • MWATER Test interaction with wrong Water

  • NNP Interaction with NNP

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SOLUTE_RADIUS

Type: real
Default: 0.00000000E+000 [angstrom]

Description: Radius of the solute molecule for prevention of coordinate collision during initialization

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