<p>Treats one or more sets of atoms as coupled rigid bodies. This means
that each timestep the total force and torque on each rigid body is
computed and the coordinates and velocities of the atoms are updated
so that the collection of bodies move as a coupled set. This can be
useful for treating a large biomolecule as a collection of connected,
coarse-grained particles.</p>
<p>The coupling, associated motion constraints, and time integration is
performed by the software package <a class="reference external" href="http://www.rpi.edu/~anderk5/lab">Parallelizable Open source Efficient Multibody Software (POEMS)</a> which computes the
constrained rigid-body motion of articulated (jointed) multibody
systems <a class="reference internal" href="#anderson"><span class="std std-ref">(Anderson)</span></a>. POEMS was written and is distributed
by Prof Kurt Anderson, his graduate student Rudranarayan Mukherjee,
and other members of his group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(RPI). Rudranarayan developed the LAMMPS/POEMS interface. For
copyright information on POEMS and other details, please refer to the
documents in the poems directory distributed with LAMMPS.</p>
<p>This fix updates the positions and velocities of the rigid atoms with
a constant-energy time integration, so you should not update the same
atoms via other fixes (e.g. nve, nvt, npt, temp/rescale, langevin).</p>
<p>Each body must have a non-degenerate inertia tensor, which means if
must contain at least 3 non-collinear atoms. Which atoms are in which
bodies can be defined via several options.</p>
<p>For option <em>group</em>, each of the listed groups is treated as a rigid
body. Note that only atoms that are also in the fix group are
included in each rigid body.</p>
<p>For option <em>molecule</em>, each set of atoms in the group with a different
molecule ID is treated as a rigid body.</p>
<p>For option <em>file</em>, sets of atoms are read from the specified file and
each set is treated as a rigid body. Each line of the file specifies
a rigid body in the following format:</p>
<p>ID type atom1-ID atom2-ID atom3-ID ...</p>
<p>ID as an integer from 1 to M (the number of rigid bodies). Type is
any integer; it is not used by the fix poems command. The remaining
arguments are IDs of atoms in the rigid body, each typically from 1 to
N (the number of atoms in the system). Only atoms that are also in
the fix group are included in each rigid body. Blank lines and lines
that begin with ‘#’ are skipped.</p>
<p>A connection between a pair of rigid bodies is inferred if one atom is
common to both bodies. The POEMS solver treats that atom as a
spherical joint with 3 degrees of freedom. Currently, a collection of
bodies can only be connected by joints as a linear chain. The entire
collection of rigid bodies can represent one or more chains. Other
connection topologies (tree, ring) are not allowed, but will be added
later. Note that if no joints exist, it is more efficient to use the
<a class="reference internal" href="fix_rigid.html"><span class="doc">fix rigid</span></a> command to simulate the system.</p>
<p>When the poems fix is defined, it will print out statistics on the
total # of clusters, bodies, joints, atoms involved. A cluster in
this context means a set of rigid bodies connected by joints.</p>
<p>For computational efficiency, you should turn off pairwise and bond
interactions within each rigid body, as they no longer contribute to
the motion. The “neigh_modify exclude” and “delete_bonds” commands
can be used to do this if each rigid body is a group.</p>
<p>For computational efficiency, you should only define one fix poems
which includes all the desired rigid bodies. LAMMPS will allow
multiple poems fixes to be defined, but it is more expensive.</p>
<p>The degrees-of-freedom removed by coupled rigid bodies are accounted
for in temperature and pressure computations. Similarly, the rigid
body contribution to the pressure virial is also accounted for. The
latter is only correct if forces within the bodies have been turned
off, and there is only a single fix poems defined.</p>
<p><strong>Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info:</strong></p>
<p>No information about this fix is written to <a class="reference internal" href="restart.html"><span class="doc">binary restart files</span></a>. None of the <a class="reference internal" href="fix_modify.html"><span class="doc">fix_modify</span></a> options
are relevant to this fix. No global or per-atom quantities are stored
by this fix for access by various <a class="reference internal" href="Section_howto.html#howto-15"><span class="std std-ref">output commands</span></a>. No parameter of this fix can
be used with the <em>start/stop</em> keywords of the <a class="reference internal" href="run.html"><span class="doc">run</span></a> command.
This fix is not invoked during <a class="reference internal" href="minimize.html"><span class="doc">energy minimization</span></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="restrictions">
<h2>Restrictions</h2>
<p>This fix is part of the POEMS package. It is only enabled if LAMMPS
was built with that package, which also requires the POEMS library be
built and linked with LAMMPS. See the <a class="reference internal" href="Section_start.html#start-3"><span class="std std-ref">Making LAMMPS</span></a> section for more info.</p>
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