<spanid="index-0"></span><h1>pair_style tersoff/mod command<aclass="headerlink"href="#pair-style-tersoff-mod-command"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Only a single pair_coeff command is used with the <em>tersoff/mod</em> style
which specifies a Tersoff/MOD potential file with parameters for all
needed elements. These are mapped to LAMMPS atom types by specifying
N additional arguments after the filename in the pair_coeff command,
where N is the number of LAMMPS atom types:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>filename</li>
<li>N element names = mapping of Tersoff/MOD elements to atom types</li>
</ul>
<p>As an example, imagine the Si.tersoff_mod file has Tersoff values for Si.
If your LAMMPS simulation has 3 Si atoms types, you would use the following
pair_coeff command:</p>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>pair_coeff * * Si.tersoff_mod Si Si Si
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<p>The 1st 2 arguments must be * * so as to span all LAMMPS atom types.
The three Si arguments map LAMMPS atom types 1,2,3 to the Si element
in the Tersoff/MOD file. If a mapping value is specified as NULL, the
mapping is not performed. This can be used when a <em>tersoff/mod</em>
potential is used as part of the <em>hybrid</em> pair style. The NULL values
are placeholders for atom types that will be used with other
potentials.</p>
<p>Tersoff/MOD file in the <em>potentials</em> directory of the LAMMPS
distribution have a ”.tersoff.mod” suffix. Lines that are not blank
or comments (starting with #) define parameters for a triplet of
elements. The parameters in a single entry correspond to coefficients
in the formula above:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>element 1 (the center atom in a 3-body interaction)</li>
<li>element 2 (the atom bonded to the center atom)</li>
<li>element 3 (the atom influencing the 1-2 bond in a bond-order sense)</li>
<li>beta</li>
<li>alpha</li>
<li>h</li>
<li>eta</li>
<li>beta_ters = 1 (dummy parameter)</li>
<li>lambda2 (1/distance units)</li>
<li>B (energy units)</li>
<li>R (distance units)</li>
<li>D (distance units)</li>
<li>lambda1 (1/distance units)</li>
<li>A (energy units)</li>
<li>n</li>
<li>c1</li>
<li>c2</li>
<li>c3</li>
<li>c4</li>
<li>c5</li>
</ul>
<p>The n, eta, lambda2, B, lambda1, and A parameters are only used for
two-body interactions. The beta, alpha, c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, h
parameters are only used for three-body interactions. The R and D
parameters are used for both two-body and three-body interactions. The
non-annotated parameters are unitless.</p>
<p>The Tersoff/MOD potential file must contain entries for all the elements
listed in the pair_coeff command. It can also contain entries for
additional elements not being used in a particular simulation; LAMMPS
ignores those entries.</p>
<p>For a single-element simulation, only a single entry is required
(e.g. SiSiSi). As annotated above, the first element in the entry is
the center atom in a three-body interaction and it is bonded to the
2nd atom and the bond is influenced by the 3rd atom. Thus an entry
for SiSiSi means Si bonded to a Si with another Si atom influencing the bond.</p>
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<p>Styles with a <em>cuda</em>, <em>gpu</em>, <em>intel</em>, <em>kk</em>, <em>omp</em>, or <em>opt</em> suffix are
functionally the same as the corresponding style without the suffix.
They have been optimized to run faster, depending on your available
hardware, as discussed in <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_accelerate.html"><em>Section_accelerate</em></a>
of the manual. The accelerated styles take the same arguments and
should produce the same results, except for round-off and precision
issues.</p>
<p>These accelerated styles are part of the USER-CUDA, GPU, USER-INTEL,
KOKKOS, USER-OMP and OPT packages, respectively. They are only
enabled if LAMMPS was built with those packages. See the <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_start.html#start-3"><span>Making LAMMPS</span></a> section for more info.</p>
<p>You can specify the accelerated styles explicitly in your input script
by including their suffix, or you can use the <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_start.html#start-7"><span>-suffix command-line switch</span></a> when you invoke LAMMPS, or you can
use the <aclass="reference internal"href="suffix.html"><em>suffix</em></a> command in your input script.</p>
<p>See <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_accelerate.html"><em>Section_accelerate</em></a> of the manual for
more instructions on how to use the accelerated styles effectively.</p>
<p>This pair style does not support the <aclass="reference internal"href="pair_modify.html"><em>pair_modify</em></a>
shift, table, and tail options.</p>
<p>This pair style does not write its information to <aclass="reference internal"href="restart.html"><em>binary restart files</em></a>, since it is stored in potential files. Thus, you
need to re-specify the pair_style and pair_coeff commands in an input
script that reads a restart file.</p>
<p>This pair style can only be used via the <em>pair</em> keyword of the
<aclass="reference internal"href="run_style.html"><em>run_style respa</em></a> command. It does not support the
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