From 3fa655e3e336e8904c6e43cda292bd94f9215ce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David van der Spoel Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:05:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added documentation for shell potentials. Added documentation for simple and anharmonic shell potentials. Added two references. Change-Id: Ica2b694b9b57bcf52bfe8434cfb3f8fe4dc7b9a2 --- docs/manual/forcefield.tex | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- docs/manual/monster.bib | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/forcefield.tex b/docs/manual/forcefield.tex index c754382c77..59d8650e80 100644 --- a/docs/manual/forcefield.tex +++ b/docs/manual/forcefield.tex @@ -1653,7 +1653,43 @@ virtual sites. The energy of the shell particle is then minimized at each time step in order to remain on the Born-Oppenheimer surface. \subsection{Simple polarization} -This is merely a harmonic potential with equilibrium distance 0. +This is implemented as a harmonic potential with equilibrium distance +0. +The input given in the topology file is the polarizability $\alpha$ (in +{\gromacs} units) as follows: +\begin{verbatim} +[ polarization ] +; Atom i j type alpha +1 2 1 0.001 +\end{verbatim} +in this case the polarizability volume is 0.001 nm$^3$ (or 1 +{\AA$^3$}). In order to compute the harmonic force constant $k_{cs}$ +(where $cs$ stands for core-shell), the +following is used~\cite{Maaren2001a}: +\begin{equation} +k_{cs} ~=~ \frac{q_s^2}{\alpha} +\end{equation} +where $q_s$ is the charge on the shell particle. + +\subsection{Anharmonic polarization} +For the development of the Drude force field by Roux and McKerell~\cite{Lopes2013a} +it was found +that some particles can overpolarize and this was fixed by introducing +a higher order term in the polarization energy: +\begin{eqnarray} +V_{pol} ~=& \frac{k_{cs}}{2} r_{cs}^2 & r_{cs} \le \delta \\ + =& \frac{k_{cs}}{2} r_{cs}^2 + k_{hyp} (r_{cs}-\delta)^4 & r_{cs} > \delta +\end{eqnarray} +where $\delta$ is a user-defined constant that is set to 0.02 nm for +anions in the Drude force field~\cite{HYu2010}. Since this original introduction it +has also been used in other atom types~\cite{Lopes2013a}. +\begin{verbatim} +[ polarization ] +;Atom i j type alpha (nm^3) delta khyp +1 2 2 0.001786 0.02 16.736e8 +\end{verbatim} +The above force constant $k_{hyp}$ corresponds to 4$\cdot$10$^8$ +kcal/mol/nm$^4$, hence the strange number. \subsection{Water polarization} A special potential for water that allows anisotropic polarization of diff --git a/docs/manual/monster.bib b/docs/manual/monster.bib index b6d97cc0b7..cc94429cf0 100644 --- a/docs/manual/monster.bib +++ b/docs/manual/monster.bib @@ -6487,6 +6487,18 @@ pages = {2044--2053} pages = "294--305", } +@ARTICLE{HYu2010, + author = {Yu, Haibo and Whitfield, Troy W and Harder, Edward and Lamoureux, + Guillaume and Vorobyov, Igor and Anisimov, Victor M and {MacKerell, + Jr.}, Alexander D and Roux, Benoit}, + title = {{Simulating Monovalent and Divalent Ions in Aqueous Solution Using + a Drude Polarizable Force Field}}, + journal = BTjctc, + year = {2010}, + volume = {6}, + pages = {774--786}, +} + @Article{Zettlmeissl83, author = "Gerd Zettlmeissl and Rainer Rudolph and Rainer Jaenicke", @@ -8756,3 +8768,12 @@ doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2015.06.001" volume = {31}, pages = {2169--2174} } + +@Article{Lopes2013a, + author = {Lopes, Pedro E. M. and Huang, Jing and Shim, Jihyun and Luo, Yun and Li, Hui and Roux, Benoit and MacKerell, Alexander D., Jr.}, + title = {Polarizable Force Field for Peptides and Proteins Based on the Classical Drude Oscillator}, + journal = {J. Chem. Theory Comput}, + year = 2013, + volume = 9, + pages = {5430-5449}} + -- 2.11.4.GIT