CCL: how to prevent rotational motion in MD simulations

 Sent to CCL by: Konstantin Kudin [konstantin_kudin-#-yahoo.com]
  Hi Ana,
  It appears that you want to use what is known as "Eckart axis
 conditions". Use this reference to start chasing down relevant papers:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1929739
  Overall, removing rotations during MD is somewhat tricky. Basically,
 rotations are defined via a reference structure. So if your system
 deviates too much from this reference structure, then the degrees of
 freedom you're removing may be quite far from pure rotations for this
 current structure in your MD.
  I hope this helps.
  Konstantin
 --- "Ana Celia Araujo Vila Verde avilaverde---engr.psu.edu"
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 > I'm doing molecular dynamics simulations of a single polymer chain in
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 > vacuum and the chain is spinning around its centre of mass. The code
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 > use already removes the translation of the centre of mass, but I am =
 > concerned that too much energy is passed onto the rotational degree
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 > freedom and not enough energy is kept at the vibrational DOFs of the
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