<spanid="index-0"></span><h1>fix nvt/eff command<aclass="headerlink"href="#fix-nvt-eff-command"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h1>fix npt/eff command<aclass="headerlink"href="#fix-npt-eff-command"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h1>fix nph/eff command<aclass="headerlink"href="#fix-nph-eff-command"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<divclass="section"id="syntax">
<h2>Syntax<aclass="headerlink"href="#syntax"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>fix ID group-ID style_name keyword value ...
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<li>ID, group-ID are documented in <aclass="reference internal"href="fix.html"><em>fix</em></a> command</li>
<li>style_name = <em>nvt/eff</em> or <em>npt/eff</em> or <em>nph/eff</em></li>
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one or more keyword value pairs may be appended
keyword = <em>temp</em> or <em>iso</em> or <em>aniso</em> or <em>tri</em> or <em>x</em> or <em>y</em> or <em>z</em> or <em>xy</em> or <em>yz</em> or <em>xz</em> or <em>couple</em> or <em>tchain</em> or <em>pchain</em> or <em>mtk</em> or <em>tloop</em> or <em>ploop</em> or <em>nreset</em> or <em>drag</em> or <em>dilate</em>
<em>temp</em> values = Tstart Tstop Tdamp
Tstart,Tstop = external temperature at start/end of run
Tdamp = temperature damping parameter (time units)
<em>iso</em> or <em>aniso</em> or <em>tri</em> values = Pstart Pstop Pdamp
Pstart,Pstop = scalar external pressure at start/end of run (pressure units)
Pdamp = pressure damping parameter (time units)
<em>x</em> or <em>y</em> or <em>z</em> or <em>xy</em> or <em>yz</em> or <em>xz</em> values = Pstart Pstop Pdamp
Pstart,Pstop = external stress tensor component at start/end of run (pressure units)
Pdamp = stress damping parameter (time units)
<em>couple</em> = <em>none</em> or <em>xyz</em> or <em>xy</em> or <em>yz</em> or <em>xz</em>
<em>tchain</em> value = length of thermostat chain (1 = single thermostat)
<em>pchain</em> values = length of thermostat chain on barostat (0 = no thermostat)
<em>mtk</em> value = <em>yes</em> or <em>no</em> = add in MTK adjustment term or not
<em>tloop</em> value = number of sub-cycles to perform on thermostat
<em>ploop</em> value = number of sub-cycles to perform on barostat thermostat
<em>nreset</em> value = reset reference cell every this many timesteps
<em>drag</em> value = drag factor added to barostat/thermostat (0.0 = no drag)
<em>dilate</em> value = <em>all</em> or <em>partial</em>
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<h2>Examples<aclass="headerlink"href="#examples"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>fix 1 all nvt/eff temp 300.0 300.0 0.1
fix 1 part npt/eff temp 300.0 300.0 0.1 iso 0.0 0.0 1.0
fix 2 part npt/eff temp 300.0 300.0 0.1 tri 5.0 5.0 1.0
fix 2 ice nph/eff x 1.0 1.0 0.5 y 2.0 2.0 0.5 z 3.0 3.0 0.5 yz 0.1 0.1 0.5 xz 0.2 0.2 0.5 xy 0.3 0.3 0.5 nreset 1000
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<divclass="section"id="description">
<h2>Description<aclass="headerlink"href="#description"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>These commands perform time integration on Nose-Hoover style
non-Hamiltonian equations of motion for nuclei and electrons in the
group for the <aclass="reference internal"href="pair_eff.html"><em>electron force field</em></a> model. The fixes
are designed to generate positions and velocities sampled from the
canonical (nvt), isothermal-isobaric (npt), and isenthalpic (nph)
ensembles. This is achieved by adding some dynamic variables which
are coupled to the particle velocities (thermostatting) and simulation
domain dimensions (barostatting). In addition to basic thermostatting
and barostatting, these fixes can also create a chain of thermostats
coupled to the particle thermostat, and another chain of thermostats
coupled to the barostat variables. The barostat can be coupled to the
overall box volume, or to individual dimensions, including the <em>xy</em>,
<em>xz</em> and <em>yz</em> tilt dimensions. The external pressure of the barostat
can be specified as either a scalar pressure (isobaric ensemble) or as
components of a symmetric stress tensor (constant stress ensemble).
When used correctly, the time-averaged temperature and stress tensor
of the particles will match the target values specified by
Tstart/Tstop and Pstart/Pstop.</p>
<p>The operation of these fixes is exactly like that described by the
<aclass="reference internal"href="fix_nh.html"><em>fix nvt, npt, and nph</em></a> commands, except that the radius
and radial velocity of electrons are also updated. Likewise the
temperature and pressure calculated by the fix, using the computes it
creates (as discussed in the <aclass="reference internal"href="fix_nh.html"><em>fix nvt, npt, and nph</em></a>
doc page), are performed with computes that include the eFF contribution
to the temperature or kinetic energy from the electron radial velocity.</p>
<divclass="admonition warning">
<pclass="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<pclass="last">there are two different pressures that can be reported
for eFF when defining the pair_style (see <codeclass="xref doc docutils literal"><spanclass="pre">pair</span><spanclass="pre">eff/cut</span></code> to understand these settings), one
(default) that considers electrons do not contribute radial virial
components (i.e. electrons treated as incompressible ‘rigid’ spheres)
and one that does. The radial electronic contributions to the virials
are only tallied if the flexible pressure option is set, and this will
affect both global and per-atom quantities. In principle, the true
pressure of a system is somewhere in between the rigid and the
flexible eFF pressures, but, for most cases, the difference between
these two pressures will not be significant over long-term averaged
runs (i.e. even though the energy partitioning changes, the total
energy remains similar).</p>
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<divclass="admonition warning">
<pclass="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<pclass="last">currently, there is no available option for the user
to set or create temperature distributions that include the radial
electronic degrees of freedom with the <aclass="reference internal"href="velocity.html"><em>velocity</em></a>
command, so the the user must allow for these degrees of freedom to
equilibrate (i.e. equi-partitioning of energy) through time
<h2>Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info<aclass="headerlink"href="#restart-fix-modify-output-run-start-stop-minimize-info"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>See the doc page for the <aclass="reference internal"href="fix_nh.html"><em>fix nvt, npt, and nph</em></a> commands
for details.</p>
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<divclass="section"id="restrictions">
<h2>Restrictions<aclass="headerlink"href="#restrictions"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This fix is part of the USER-EFF package. It is only enabled if
LAMMPS was built with that package. See the <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_start.html#start-3"><span>Making LAMMPS</span></a> section for more info.</p>
<p>Other restriction discussed on the doc page for the <aclass="reference internal"href="fix_nh.html"><em>fix nvt, npt, and nph</em></a> commands also apply.</p>
<divclass="admonition warning">
<pclass="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<pclass="last">The temperature for systems (regions or groups) with
only electrons and no nuclei is 0.0 (i.e. not defined) in the current
temperature calculations, a practical example would be a uniform
electron gas or a very hot plasma, where electrons remain delocalized
from the nuclei. This is because, even though electron virials are
included in the temperature calculation, these are averaged over the
nuclear degrees of freedom only. In such cases a corrective term must
be added to the pressure to get the correct kinetic contribution.</p>
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<divclass="section"id="related-commands">
<h2>Related commands<aclass="headerlink"href="#related-commands"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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