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fix nvt/body command
Syntax
fix ID group-ID nvt/body keyword value ...
Examples
fix 1 all nvt/body temp 300.0 300.0 100.0
fix 1 all nvt/body temp 300.0 300.0 100.0 drag 0.2
Description
Perform constant NVT integration to update position, velocity, orientation, and angular velocity each timestep for body particles in the group using a Nose/Hoover temperature thermostat. V is volume; T is temperature. This creates a system trajectory consistent with the canonical ensemble.
This fix differs from the fix nvt command, which assumes point particles and only updates their position and velocity.
The thermostat is applied to both the translational and rotational degrees of freedom for the body particles, assuming a compute is used which calculates a temperature that includes the rotational degrees of freedom (see below). The translational degrees of freedom can also have a bias velocity removed from them before thermostatting takes place; see the description below.
Additional parameters affecting the thermostat are specified by keywords and values documented with the fix nvt command. See, for example, discussion of the temp and drag keywords.
This fix computes a temperature each timestep. To do this, the fix creates its own compute of style “temp/body”, as if this command had been issued:
compute fix-ID_temp group-ID temp/body
See the compute temp/body command for details. Note that the ID of the new compute is the fix-ID + underscore + “temp”, and the group for the new compute is the same as the fix group.
Note that this is NOT the compute used by thermodynamic output (see the thermo_style command) with ID = thermo_temp. This means you can change the attributes of this fix’s temperature (e.g. its degrees-of-freedom) via the compute_modify command or print this temperature during thermodynamic output via the thermo_style custom command using the appropriate compute-ID. It also means that changing attributes of thermo_temp will have no effect on this fix.
Like other fixes that perform thermostatting, this fix can be used with compute commands that remove a “bias” from the atom velocities. E.g. to apply the thermostat only to atoms within a spatial region, or to remove the center-of-mass velocity from a group of atoms, or to remove the x-component of velocity from the calculation.
This is not done by default, but only if the fix_modify command is used to assign a temperature compute to this fix that includes such a bias term. See the doc pages for individual compute temp commands to determine which ones include a bias. In this case, the thermostat works in the following manner: bias is removed from each atom, thermostatting is performed on the remaining thermal degrees of freedom, and the bias is added back in.
Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info
This fix writes the state of the Nose/Hoover thermostat to binary restart files. See the read_restart command for info on how to re-specify a fix in an input script that reads a restart file, so that the operation of the fix continues in an uninterrupted fashion.
The fix_modify temp option is supported by this fix. You can use it to assign a compute you have defined to this fix which will be used in its thermostatting procedure.
The cumulative energy change in the system imposed by this fix is included in the thermodynamic output keywords ecouple and econserve. See the thermo_style doc page for details.
This fix computes the same global scalar and global vector of quantities as does the fix nvt command.
This fix can ramp its target temperature over multiple runs, using the start and stop keywords of the run command. See the run command for details of how to do this.
This fix is not invoked during energy minimization.
Restrictions
This fix is part of the BODY package. It is only enabled if LAMMPS was built with that package. See the Build package page for more info.
This fix requires that atoms store torque and angular momentum and a quaternion as defined by the atom_style body command.
Default
none