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<div class="section" id="compute-msd-command">
<span id="index-0"></span><h1>compute msd command<a class="headerlink" href="#compute-msd-command" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="syntax">
<h2>Syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#syntax" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>compute ID group-ID msd keyword values ...
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<li>ID, group-ID are documented in <a class="reference internal" href="compute.html"><em>compute</em></a> command</li>
<li>msd = style name of this compute command</li>
<li>zero or more keyword/value pairs may be appended</li>
<li>keyword = <em>com</em></li>
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<em>com</em> value = <em>yes</em> or <em>no</em>
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<h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>compute 1 all msd
compute 1 upper msd com yes
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<h2>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Define a computation that calculates the mean-squared displacement
(MSD) of the group of atoms, including all effects due to atoms
passing thru periodic boundaries. For computation of the non-Gaussian
parameter of mean-squared displacement, see the <a class="reference internal" href="compute_msd_nongauss.html"><em>compute msd/nongauss</em></a> command.</p>
<p>A vector of four quantites is calculated by this compute. The first 3
elements of the vector are the squared dx,dy,dz displacements, summed
and averaged over atoms in the group. The 4th element is the total
squared displacement, i.e. (dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz), summed and
averaged over atoms in the group.</p>
<p>The slope of the mean-squared displacement (MSD) versus time is
proportional to the diffusion coefficient of the diffusing atoms.</p>
<p>The displacement of an atom is from its original position at the time
the compute command was issued. The value of the displacement will be
0.0 for atoms not in the specified compute group.</p>
<p>If the <em>com</em> option is set to <em>yes</em> then the effect of any drift in
the center-of-mass of the group of atoms is subtracted out before xhe
displacment of each atom is calcluated.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p class="last">Initial coordinates are stored in &#8220;unwrapped&#8221; form, by
using the image flags associated with each atom. See the <a class="reference internal" href="dump.html"><em>dump custom</em></a> command for a discussion of &#8220;unwrapped&#8221; coordinates.
See the Atoms section of the <a class="reference internal" href="read_data.html"><em>read_data</em></a> command for a
discussion of image flags and how they are set for each atom. You can
reset the image flags (e.g. to 0) before invoking this compute by
using the <a class="reference internal" href="set.html"><em>set image</em></a> command.</p>
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<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p class="last">If you want the quantities calculated by this compute
to be continuous when running from a <a class="reference internal" href="read_restart.html"><em>restart file</em></a>,
then you should use the same ID for this compute, as in the original
run. This is so that the fix this compute creates to store per-atom
quantities will also have the same ID, and thus be initialized
correctly with time=0 atom coordinates from the restart file.</p>
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<p><strong>Output info:</strong></p>
<p>This compute calculates a global vector of length 4, which can be
accessed by indices 1-4 by any command that uses global vector values
from a compute as input. See <a class="reference internal" href="Section_howto.html#howto-15"><span>this section</span></a> for an overview of LAMMPS output
options.</p>
<p>The vector values are &#8220;intensive&#8221;. The vector values will be in
distance^2 <a class="reference internal" href="units.html"><em>units</em></a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="restrictions">
<h2>Restrictions<a class="headerlink" href="#restrictions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<blockquote>
<div>none</div></blockquote>
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<div class="section" id="related-commands">
<h2>Related commands<a class="headerlink" href="#related-commands" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="compute_msd_nongauss.html"><em>compute msd/nongauss</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="compute_displace_atom.html"><em>compute displace_atom</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="fix_store_state.html"><em>fix store/state</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="compute_msd_chunk.html"><em>compute msd/chunk</em></a></p>
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<h2>Default<a class="headerlink" href="#default" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The option default is com = no.</p>
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