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44 mlamichh 4114 \begin{document}
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46     \preprint{AIP/123-QED}
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48     \title[Efficient electrostatics for condensed-phase multipoles]{Real space alternatives to the Ewald
49 gezelter 4167 Sum. II. Comparison of Simulation Methodologies} % Force line breaks with \\
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51     \author{Madan Lamichhane}
52     \affiliation{Department of Physics, University
53     of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556}%Lines break automatically or can be forced with \\
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55     \author{Kathie E. Newman}
56     \affiliation{Department of Physics, University
57     of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556}
58    
59     \author{J. Daniel Gezelter}%
60     \email{gezelter@nd.edu.}
61     \affiliation{Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556%\\This line break forced with \textbackslash\textbackslash
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67     \begin{abstract}
68     We have tested our recently developed shifted potential, gradient-shifted force, and Taylor-shifted force methods for the higher-order multipoles against Ewald’s method in different types of liquid and crystalline system. In this paper, we have also investigated the conservation of total energy in the molecular dynamic simulation using all of these methods. The shifted potential method shows better agreement with the Ewald in the energy differences between different configurations as compared to the direct truncation. Both the gradient shifted force and Taylor-shifted force methods reproduce very good energy conservation. But the absolute energy, force and torque evaluated from the gradient shifted force method shows better result as compared to taylor-shifted force method. Hence the gradient-shifted force method suitably mimics the electrostatic interaction in the molecular dynamic simulation.
69     \end{abstract}
70    
71     \pacs{Valid PACS appear here}% PACS, the Physics and Astronomy
72     % Classification Scheme.
73 gezelter 4167 \keywords{Electrostatics, Multipoles, Real-space}
74    
75 mlamichh 4114 \maketitle
76    
77    
78 mlamichh 4166 \section{\label{sec:intro}Introduction}
79 gezelter 4167 Computing the interactions between electrostatic sites is one of the
80     most expensive aspects of molecular simulations, which is why there
81     have been significant efforts to develop practical, efficient and
82     convergent methods for handling these interactions. Ewald's method is
83     perhaps the best known and most accurate method for evaluating
84     energies, forces, and torques in explicitly-periodic simulation
85     cells. In this approach, the conditionally convergent electrostatic
86     energy is converted into two absolutely convergent contributions, one
87     which is carried out in real space with a cutoff radius, and one in
88     reciprocal space.\cite{Clarke:1986eu,Woodcock75}
89 mlamichh 4114
90 gezelter 4167 When carried out as originally formulated, the reciprocal-space
91     portion of the Ewald sum exhibits relatively poor computational
92     scaling, making it prohibitive for large systems. By utilizing
93     particle meshes and three dimensional fast Fourier transforms (FFT),
94     the particle-mesh Ewald (PME), particle-particle particle-mesh Ewald
95 gezelter 4168 (P\textsuperscript{3}ME), and smooth particle mesh Ewald (SPME) methods can decrease
96 gezelter 4167 the computational cost from $O(N^2)$ down to $O(N \log
97     N)$.\cite{Takada93,Gunsteren94,Gunsteren95,Darden:1993pd,Essmann:1995pb}.
98    
99     Because of the artificial periodicity required for the Ewald sum, the
100     method may require modification to compute interactions for
101     interfacial molecular systems such as membranes and liquid-vapor
102     interfaces.\cite{Parry:1975if,Parry:1976fq,Clarke77,Perram79,Rhee:1989kl}
103     To simulate interfacial systems, Parry’s extension of the 3D Ewald sum
104     is appropriate for slab geometries.\cite{Parry:1975if} The inherent
105     periodicity in the Ewald’s method can also be problematic for
106     interfacial molecular systems.\cite{Fennell:2006lq} Modified Ewald
107     methods that were developed to handle two-dimensional (2D)
108     electrostatic interactions in interfacial systems have not had similar
109     particle-mesh treatments.\cite{Parry:1975if, Parry:1976fq, Clarke77,
110     Perram79,Rhee:1989kl,Spohr:1997sf,Yeh:1999oq}
111    
112 mlamichh 4166 \subsection{Real-space methods}
113 gezelter 4168 Wolf \textit{et al.}\cite{Wolf:1999dn} proposed a real space $O(N)$
114     method for calculating electrostatic interactions between point
115 gezelter 4167 charges. They argued that the effective Coulomb interaction in
116     condensed systems is actually short ranged.\cite{Wolf92,Wolf95}. For
117     an ordered lattice (e.g. when computing the Madelung constant of an
118     ionic solid), the material can be considered as a set of ions
119     interacting with neutral dipolar or quadrupolar ``molecules'' giving
120     an effective distance dependence for the electrostatic interactions of
121     $r^{-5}$ (see figure \ref{fig:NaCl}. For this reason, careful
122     applications of Wolf's method are able to obtain accurate estimates of
123     Madelung constants using relatively short cutoff radii. Recently,
124     Fukuda used neutralization of the higher order moments for the
125     calculation of the electrostatic interaction of the point charges
126     system.\cite{Fukuda:2013sf}
127 mlamichh 4114
128     \begin{figure}[h!]
129 gezelter 4167 \centering
130     \includegraphics[width=0.50 \textwidth]{chargesystem.pdf}
131     \caption{Top: NaCl crystal showing how spherical truncation can
132     breaking effective charge ordering, and how complete \ce{(NaCl)4}
133     molecules interact with the central ion. Bottom: A dipolar
134     crystal exhibiting similar behavior and illustrating how the
135     effective dipole-octupole interactions can be disrupted by
136     spherical truncation.}
137     \label{fig:NaCl}
138     \end{figure}
139 mlamichh 4114
140 gezelter 4167 The direct truncation of interactions at a cutoff radius creates
141     truncation defects. Wolf \textit{et al.} further argued that
142     truncation errors are due to net charge remaining inside the cutoff
143     sphere.\cite{Wolf:1999dn} To neutralize this charge they proposed
144     placing an image charge on the surface of the cutoff sphere for every
145     real charge inside the cutoff. These charges are present for the
146     evaluation of both the pair interaction energy and the force, although
147     the force expression maintained a discontinuity at the cutoff sphere.
148     In the original Wolf formulation, the total energy for the charge and
149     image were not equal to the integral of their force expression, and as
150     a result, the total energy would not be conserved in molecular
151     dynamics (MD) simulations.\cite{Zahn:2002hc} Zahn \textit{et al.} and
152     Fennel and Gezelter later proposed shifted force variants of the Wolf
153     method with commensurate force and energy expressions that do not
154 gezelter 4168 exhibit this problem.\cite{Fennell:2006lq} Related real-space
155     methods were also proposed by Chen \textit{et
156     al.}\cite{Chen:2004du,Chen:2006ii,Denesyuk:2008ez,Rodgers:2006nw}
157     and by Wu and Brooks.\cite{Wu:044107}
158 gezelter 4167
159     Considering the interaction of one central ion in an ionic crystal
160     with a portion of the crystal at some distance, the effective Columbic
161     potential is found to be decreasing as $r^{-5}$. If one views the
162     \ce{NaCl} crystal as simple cubic (SC) structure with an octupolar
163     \ce{(NaCl)4} basis, the electrostatic energy per ion converges more
164     rapidly to the Madelung energy than the dipolar
165     approximation.\cite{Wolf92} To find the correct Madelung constant,
166     Lacman suggested that the NaCl structure could be constructed in a way
167     that the finite crystal terminates with complete \ce{(NaCl)4}
168     molecules.\cite{Lacman65} Any charge in a NaCl crystal is surrounded
169     by opposite charges. Similarly for each pair of charges, there is an
170     opposite pair of charge adjacent to it. The central ion sees what is
171     effectively a set of octupoles at large distances. These facts suggest
172     that the Madelung constants are relatively short ranged for perfect
173     ionic crystals.\cite{Wolf:1999dn}
174    
175     One can make a similar argument for crystals of point multipoles. The
176     Luttinger and Tisza treatment of energy constants for dipolar lattices
177     utilizes 24 basis vectors that contain dipoles at the eight corners of
178     a unit cube. Only three of these basis vectors, $X_1, Y_1,
179     \mathrm{~and~} Z_1,$ retain net dipole moments, while the rest have
180     zero net dipole and retain contributions only from higher order
181     multipoles. The effective interaction between a dipole at the center
182     of a crystal and a group of eight dipoles farther away is
183     significantly shorter ranged than the $r^{-3}$ that one would expect
184     for raw dipole-dipole interactions. Only in crystals which retain a
185     bulk dipole moment (e.g. ferroelectrics) does the analogy with the
186     ionic crystal break down -- ferroelectric dipolar crystals can exist,
187     while ionic crystals with net charge in each unit cell would be
188     unstable.
189    
190     In ionic crystals, real-space truncation can break the effective
191 gezelter 4168 multipolar arrangements (see Fig. \ref{fig:NaCl}), causing significant
192 gezelter 4167 swings in the electrostatic energy as the cutoff radius is increased
193     (or as individual ions move back and forth across the boundary). This
194     is why the image charges were necessary for the Wolf sum to exhibit
195     rapid convergence. Similarly, the real-space truncation of point
196 gezelter 4168 multipole interactions breaks higher order multipole arrangements, and
197     image multipoles are required for real-space treatments of
198     electrostatic energies.
199 gezelter 4167
200     % Because of this reason, although the nature of electrostatic
201     % interaction short ranged, the hard cutoff sphere creates very large
202     % fluctuation in the electrostatic energy for the perfect crystal. In
203     % addition, the charge neutralized potential proposed by Wolf et
204     % al. converged to correct Madelung constant but still holds oscillation
205     % in the energy about correct Madelung energy.\cite{Wolf:1999dn}. This
206     % oscillation in the energy around its fully converged value can be due
207     % to the non-neutralized value of the higher order moments within the
208     % cutoff sphere.
209    
210     The forces and torques acting on atomic sites are the fundamental
211     factors driving dynamics in molecular simulations. Fennell and
212     Gezelter proposed the damped shifted force (DSF) energy kernel to
213     obtain consistent energies and forces on the atoms within the cutoff
214 gezelter 4168 sphere. Both the energy and the force go smoothly to zero as an atom
215     aproaches the cutoff radius. The comparisons of the accuracy these
216     quantities between the DSF kernel and SPME was surprisingly
217     good.\cite{Fennell:2006lq} The DSF method has seen increasing use for
218     calculating electrostatic interactions in molecular systems with
219     relatively uniform charge
220     densities.\cite{Shi:2013ij,Kannam:2012rr,Acevedo13,Space12,English08,Lawrence13,Vergne13}
221 gezelter 4167
222 gezelter 4168 \subsection{The damping function}
223 gezelter 4167 The damping function used in our research has been discussed in detail
224     in the first paper of this series.\cite{PaperI} The radial kernel
225 gezelter 4168 $1/r$ for the interactions between point charges can be replaced by
226     the complementary error function $\mathrm{erfc}(\alpha r)/r$ to
227     accelerate the rate of convergence, where $\alpha$ is a damping
228     parameter with units of inverse distance. Altering the value of
229     $\alpha$ is equivalent to changing the width of Gaussian charge
230     distributions that replace each point charge -- Gaussian overlap
231     integrals yield complementary error functions when truncated at a
232     finite distance.
233 mlamichh 4114
234 gezelter 4168 By using suitable value of damping alpha ($\alpha \sim 0.2$) for a
235     cutoff radius ($r_{­c}=9 A$), Fennel and Gezelter produced very good
236     agreement with SPME for the interaction energies, forces and torques
237     for charge-charge interactions.\cite{Fennell:2006lq}
238 gezelter 4167
239 gezelter 4168 \subsection{Point multipoles in molecular modeling}
240     Coarse-graining approaches which treat entire molecular subsystems as
241     a single rigid body are now widely used. A common feature of many
242     coarse-graining approaches is simplification of the electrostatic
243     interactions between bodies so that fewer site-site interactions are
244     required to compute configurational energies. Many coarse-grained
245     molecular structures would normally consist of equal positive and
246     negative charges, and rather than use multiple site-site interactions,
247     the interaction between higher order multipoles can also be used to
248     evaluate a single molecule-molecule
249     interaction.\cite{Ren06,Essex10,Essex11}
250 mlamichh 4166
251 gezelter 4168 Because electrons in a molecule are not localized at specific points,
252     the assignment of partial charges to atomic centers is a relatively
253     rough approximation. Atomic sites can also be assigned point
254     multipoles and polarizabilities to increase the accuracy of the
255     molecular model. Recently, water has been modeled with point
256     multipoles up to octupolar
257     order.\cite{Ichiye10_1,Ichiye10_2,Ichiye10_3} Atom-centered point
258     multipoles up to quadrupolar order have also been coupled with point
259     polarizabilities in the high-quality AMOEBA and iAMOEBA water
260     models.\cite{Ren:2003uq,Ren:2004kx,Ponder:2010vl,Wang:2013fk}. But
261     using point multipole with the real space truncation without
262     accounting for multipolar neutrality will create energy conservation
263     issues in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
264 mlamichh 4166
265 gezelter 4168 In this paper we test a set of real-space methods that were developed
266     for point multipolar interactions. These methods extend the damped
267     shifted force (DSF) and Wolf methods originally developed for
268     charge-charge interactions and generalize them for higher order
269     multipoles. The detailed mathematical development of these methods has
270     been presented in the first paper in this series, while this work
271     covers the testing the energies, forces, torques, and energy
272     conservation properties of the methods in realistic simulation
273     environments. In all cases, the methods are compared with the
274     reference method, a full multipolar Ewald treatment.
275    
276    
277 mlamichh 4166 %\subsection{Conservation of total energy }
278 gezelter 4167 %To conserve the total energy in MD simulations, the energy, force, and torque on a central molecule due to another molecule should smoothly tends to zero as second molecule approaches to cutoff radius. In addition, the force should be derivable from the energy and vice versa. If only the first condition holds but not the second, the total energy does not conserve.\cite{Fennell:2006lq}. The hard cutoff method does not ensure the smooth transition of the energy, force, and torque at the cutoff radius.\cite{Wolf:1999dn} By placing image charge on the surface of the cutoff sphere, the smooth transition of the energy can be ensured but the force and torque remains discontinuous. Therefore the purposed methods should have smooth transition of the energy, force and torque to ensure the total energy conservation and the expression should be close to idea of placing image multipole on the surface of the cutoff sphere.
279 mlamichh 4166
280 gezelter 4168 \section{\label{sec:method}Review of Methods}
281     Any real-space electrostatic method that is suitable for MD
282     simulations should have the electrostatic energy, forces and torques
283     between two sites go smoothly to zero as the distance between the
284     sites, $r_{\bf ab}$ approaches the cutoff radius, $r_c$. Requiring
285     this continuity at the cutoff is essential for energy conservation in
286     MD simulations. The mathematical details of the shifted potential
287     (SP), gradient-shifted-force (GSF) and Taylor shifted-force (TSF)
288     methods have been discussed in detail in the previous paper in this
289     series.\cite{PaperI} Here we briefly review the new methods and
290     describe their essential features.
291 mlamichh 4166
292 gezelter 4168 \subsection{Taylor-shifted force (TSF)}
293 mlamichh 4114
294 gezelter 4168 The electrostatic potential energy between point multipoles can be
295     expressed as the product of two multipole operators and a Coulombic
296     kernel,
297 mlamichh 4114 \begin{equation}
298 gezelter 4168 U_{\bf{ab}}(r)=\hat{M}_{\bf a} \hat{M}_{\bf b} \frac{1}{r} \label{kernel}.
299 mlamichh 4114 \end{equation}
300 gezelter 4168 where the multipole operator for site $\bf a$,
301     \begin{equation}
302     \hat{M}_{\bf a} = C_{\bf a} - D_{{\bf a}\alpha} \frac{\partial}{\partial r_{\alpha}}
303     + Q_{{\bf a}\alpha\beta}
304     \frac{\partial^2}{\partial r_{\alpha} \partial r_{\beta}} + \dots
305     \end{equation}
306     is expressed in terms of the point charge, $C_{\bf a}$, dipole,
307     $D_{{\bf a}\alpha}$, and quadrupole, $Q_{{\bf a}\alpha\beta}$, for
308     object $\bf a$. Note that in this work, we use the primitive
309     quadrupole tensor, $Q_{a\alpha,\beta}=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{k\;in\;a}q_k
310     r_{k\alpha}r_{k\beta}$ to represent point quadrupoles on a site.
311 mlamichh 4166
312 gezelter 4168 Interactions between multipoles can be expressed as higher derivatives
313     of the bare Coulomb potential, so one way of ensuring that the forces
314     and torques vanish at the cutoff distance is to include a larger
315     number of terms in the truncated Taylor expansion, e.g.,
316     %
317     \begin{equation}
318     f_n^{\text{shift}}(r)=\sum_{m=0}^{n+1} \frac {(r-R_c)^m}{m!} f^{(m)} \Big \lvert _{R_c} .
319     \end{equation}
320     %
321     The combination of $f(r)$ with the shifted function is denoted $f_n(r)=f(r)-f_n^{\text{shift}}(r)$.
322     Thus, for $f(r)=1/r$, we find
323     %
324     \begin{equation}
325     f_1(r)=\frac{1}{r}- \frac{1}{R_c} + (r - R_c) \frac{1}{R_c^2} - \frac{(r-R_c)^2}{R_c^3} .
326     \end{equation}
327     This function is an approximate electrostatic potential that has
328     vanishing second derivatives at the cutoff radius, making it suitable
329     for shifting the forces and torques of charge-dipole interactions.
330    
331     In general, the TSF potential for any multipole-multipole interaction
332     can be written
333     \begin{equation}
334     U^{\text{TSF}}= (\text{prefactor}) (\text{derivatives}) f_n(r)
335     \label{generic}
336     \end{equation}
337     with $n=0$ for charge-charge, $n=1$ for charge-dipole, $n=2$ for
338     charge-quadrupole and dipole-dipole, $n=3$ for dipole-quadrupole, and
339     $n=4$ for quadrupole-quadrupole. To ensure smooth convergence of the
340     energy, force, and torques, the required number of terms from Taylor
341     series expansion in $f_n(r)$ must be performed for different
342     multipole-multipole interactions.
343    
344     To carry out the same procedure for a damped electrostatic kernel, we
345     replace $1/r$ in the Coulomb potential with $\text{erfc}(\alpha r)/r$.
346     Many of the derivatives of the damped kernel are well known from
347     Smith's early work on multipoles for the Ewald
348     summation.\cite{Smith82,Smith98}
349    
350     Note that increasing the value of $n$ will add additional terms to the
351     electrostatic potential, e.g., $f_2(r)$ includes orders up to
352     $(r-R_c)^3/R_c^4$, and so on. Successive derivatives of the $f_n(r)$
353     functions are denoted $g_2(r) = f^\prime_2(r)$, $h_2(r) =
354     f^{\prime\prime}_2(r)$, etc. These higher derivatives are required
355     for computing multipole energies, forces, and torques, and smooth
356     cutoffs of these quantities can be guaranteed as long as the number of
357     terms in the Taylor series exceeds the derivative order required.
358    
359     For multipole-multipole interactions, following this procedure results
360     in separate radial functions for each distinct orientational
361     contribution to the potential, and ensures that the forces and torques
362     from {\it each} of these contributions will vanish at the cutoff
363     radius. For example, the direct dipole dot product ($\mathbf{D}_{i}
364     \cdot \mathbf{D}_{j}$) is treated differently than the dipole-distance
365     dot products:
366     \begin{equation}
367     U_{D_{i}D_{j}}(r)= -\frac{1}{4\pi \epsilon_0} \left( \mathbf{D}_{i} \cdot
368     \mathbf{D}_{j} \right) \frac{g_2(r)}{r}
369     -\frac{1}{4\pi \epsilon_0}
370     \left( \mathbf{D}_{i} \cdot \hat{r} \right)
371     \left( \mathbf{D}_{j} \cdot \hat{r} \right) \left(h_2(r) -
372     \frac{g_2(r)}{r} \right)
373     \end{equation}
374    
375     The electrostatic forces and torques acting on the central multipole
376     site due to another site within cutoff sphere are derived from
377     Eq.~\ref{generic}, accounting for the appropriate number of
378     derivatives. Complete energy, force, and torque expressions are
379     presented in the first paper in this series (Reference
380 gezelter 4170 \citep{PaperI}).
381 gezelter 4168
382     \subsection{Gradient-shifted force (GSF)}
383    
384     A second (and significantly simpler) method involves shifting the
385     gradient of the raw coulomb potential for each particular multipole
386     order. For example, the raw dipole-dipole potential energy may be
387     shifted smoothly by finding the gradient for two interacting dipoles
388     which have been projected onto the surface of the cutoff sphere
389     without changing their relative orientation,
390     \begin{displaymath}
391     U_{D_{i}D_{j}}(r_{ij}) = U_{D_{i}D_{j}}(r_{ij}) - U_{D_{i}D_{j}}(R_c)
392     - (r_{ij}-R_c) \hat{r}_{ij} \cdot
393     \vec{\nabla} V_{D_{i}D_{j}}(r) \Big \lvert _{R_c}
394     \end{displaymath}
395     Here the lab-frame orientations of the two dipoles, $\mathbf{D}_{i}$
396     and $\mathbf{D}_{j}$, are retained at the cutoff distance (although
397     the signs are reversed for the dipole that has been projected onto the
398     cutoff sphere). In many ways, this simpler approach is closer in
399     spirit to the original shifted force method, in that it projects a
400     neutralizing multipole (and the resulting forces from this multipole)
401     onto a cutoff sphere. The resulting functional forms for the
402     potentials, forces, and torques turn out to be quite similar in form
403     to the Taylor-shifted approach, although the radial contributions are
404     significantly less perturbed by the Gradient-shifted approach than
405     they are in the Taylor-shifted method.
406    
407     In general, the gradient shifted potential between a central multipole
408     and any multipolar site inside the cutoff radius is given by,
409     \begin{equation}
410     U^{\text{GSF}} = \sum \left[ U(\mathbf{r}, \hat{\mathbf{a}}, \hat{\mathbf{b}}) -
411     U(\mathbf{r}_c,\hat{\mathbf{a}}, \hat{\mathbf{b}}) - (r-r_c) \hat{r}
412     \cdot \nabla U(\mathbf{r},\hat{\mathbf{a}}, \hat{\mathbf{b}}) \Big \lvert _{r_c} \right]
413     \label{generic2}
414     \end{equation}
415     where the sum describes a separate force-shifting that is applied to
416     each orientational contribution to the energy.
417    
418     The third term converges more rapidly than the first two terms as a
419     function of radius, hence the contribution of the third term is very
420     small for large cutoff radii. The force and torque derived from
421     equation \ref{generic2} are consistent with the energy expression and
422     approach zero as $r \rightarrow R_c$. Both the GSF and TSF methods
423     can be considered generalizations of the original DSF method for
424     higher order multipole interactions. GSF and TSF are also identical up
425     to the charge-dipole interaction but generate different expressions in
426     the energy, force and torque for higher order multipole-multipole
427     interactions. Complete energy, force, and torque expressions for the
428     GSF potential are presented in the first paper in this series
429 gezelter 4170 (Reference \citep{PaperI})
430 gezelter 4168
431    
432 mlamichh 4166 \subsection{Shifted potential (SP) }
433 gezelter 4168 A discontinuous truncation of the electrostatic potential at the
434     cutoff sphere introduces a severe artifact (oscillation in the
435     electrostatic energy) even for molecules with the higher-order
436     multipoles.\cite{PaperI} We have also formulated an extension of the
437     Wolf approach for point multipoles by simply projecting the image
438     multipole onto the surface of the cutoff sphere, and including the
439     interactions with the central multipole and the image. This
440     effectively shifts the total potential to zero at the cutoff radius,
441 mlamichh 4166 \begin{equation}
442     U_{SP}(\vec r)=\sum U(\vec r) - U(\vec r_c)
443     \label{eq:SP}
444     \end{equation}
445 gezelter 4168 where the sum describes separate potential shifting that is done for
446     each orientational contribution to the energy (e.g. the direct dipole
447     product contribution is shifted {\it separately} from the
448     dipole-distance terms in dipole-dipole interactions). Note that this
449     is not a simple shifting of the total potential at $R_c$. Each radial
450     contribution is shifted separately. One consequence of this is that
451     multipoles that reorient after leaving the cutoff sphere can re-enter
452     the cutoff sphere without perturbing the total energy.
453 mlamichh 4166
454 gezelter 4168 The potential energy between a central multipole and other multipolar
455     sites then goes smoothly to zero as $r \rightarrow R_c$. However, the
456     force and torque obtained from the shifted potential (SP) are
457     discontinuous at $R_c$. Therefore, MD simulations will still
458     experience energy drift while operating under the SP potential, but it
459     may be suitable for Monte Carlo approaches where the configurational
460     energy differences are the primary quantity of interest.
461    
462 gezelter 4170 \subsection{The Self term}
463 gezelter 4168 In the TSF, GSF, and SP methods, a self-interaction is retained for
464     the central multipole interacting with its own image on the surface of
465     the cutoff sphere. This self interaction is nearly identical with the
466     self-terms that arise in the Ewald sum for multipoles. Complete
467     expressions for the self terms are presented in the first paper in
468 gezelter 4170 this series (Reference \citep{PaperI})
469 mlamichh 4162
470 gezelter 4168
471 gezelter 4170 \section{\label{sec:methodology}Methodology}
472 mlamichh 4166
473 gezelter 4170 To understand how the real-space multipole methods behave in computer
474     simulations, it is vital to test against established methods for
475     computing electrostatic interactions in periodic systems, and to
476     evaluate the size and sources of any errors that arise from the
477     real-space cutoffs. In the first paper of this series, we compared
478     the dipolar and quadrupolar energy expressions against analytic
479     expressions for ordered dipolar and quadrupolar
480     arrays.\cite{Sauer,LT,Nagai01081960,Nagai01091963} This work uses the
481     multipolar Ewald sum as a reference method for comparing energies,
482     forces, and torques for molecular models that mimic disordered and
483     ordered condensed-phase systems. These test-cases include:
484 mlamichh 4166
485 gezelter 4170 \begin{itemize}
486     \item Soft Dipolar fluids ($\sigma = , \epsilon = , |D| = $)
487     \item Soft Dipolar solids ($\sigma = , \epsilon = , |D| = $)
488     \item Soft Quadrupolar fluids ($\sigma = , \epsilon = , Q_{xx} = ...$)
489     \item Soft Quadrupolar solids ($\sigma = , \epsilon = , Q_{xx} = ...$)
490     \item A mixed multipole model for water
491     \item A mixed multipole models for water with dissolved ions
492     \end{itemize}
493     This last test case exercises all levels of the multipole-multipole
494     interactions we have derived so far and represents the most complete
495     test of the new methods.
496 mlamichh 4166
497 gezelter 4170 In the following section, we present results for the total
498     electrostatic energy, as well as the electrostatic contributions to
499     the force and torque on each molecule. These quantities have been
500     computed using the SP, TSF, and GSF methods, as well as a hard cutoff,
501     and have been compared with the values obtaine from the multipolar
502     Ewald sum. In Mote Carlo (MC) simulations, the energy differences
503     between two configurations is the primary quantity that governs how
504     the simulation proceeds. These differences are the most imporant
505     indicators of the reliability of a method even if the absolute
506     energies are not exact. For each of the multipolar systems listed
507     above, we have compared the change in electrostatic potential energy
508     ($\Delta E$) between 250 statistically-independent configurations. In
509     molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the forces and torques govern the
510     behavior of the simulation, so we also compute the electrostatic
511     contributions to the forces and torques.
512    
513     \subsection{Model systems}
514     To sample independent configurations of multipolar crystals, a body
515     centered cubic (BCC) crystal which is a minimum energy structure for
516     point dipoles was generated using 3,456 molecules. The multipoles
517     were translationally locked in their respective crystal sites for
518     equilibration at a relatively low temperature (50K), so that dipoles
519     or quadrupoles could freely explore all accessible orientations. The
520     translational constraints were removed, and the crystals were
521     simulated for 10 ps in the microcanonical (NVE) ensemble with an
522     average temperature of 50 K. Configurations were sampled at equal
523     time intervals for the comparison of the configurational energy
524     differences. The crystals were not simulated close to the melting
525     points in order to avoid translational deformation away of the ideal
526     lattice geometry.
527    
528     For dipolar, quadrupolar, and mixed-multipole liquid simulations, each
529     system was created with 2048 molecules oriented randomly. These were
530    
531     system with 2,048 molecules simulated for 1ns in NVE ensemble at 300 K
532     temperature after equilibration. We collected 250 different
533     configurations in equal interval of time. For the ions mixed liquid
534     system, we converted 48 different molecules into 24 \ce{Na+} and 24
535     \ce{Cl-} ions and equilibrated. After equilibration, the system was run
536     at the same environment for 1ns and 250 configurations were
537     collected. While comparing energies, forces, and torques with Ewald
538     method, Lennard-Jones potentials were turned off and purely
539     electrostatic interaction had been compared.
540    
541     \subsection{Accuracy of Energy Differences, Forces and Torques}
542     The pairwise summation techniques (outlined above) were evaluated for
543     use in MC simulations by studying the energy differences between
544     different configurations. We took the Ewald-computed energy
545     difference between two conformations to be the correct behavior. An
546     ideal performance by one of the new methods would reproduce these
547     energy differences exactly. The configurational energies being used
548     here contain only contributions from electrostatic interactions.
549     Lennard-Jones interactions were omitted from the comparison as they
550     should be identical for all methods.
551    
552     Since none of the real-space methods provide exact energy differences,
553     we used least square regressions analysiss for the six different
554     molecular systems to compare $\Delta E$ from Hard, SP, GSF, and TSF
555     with the multipolar Ewald reference method. Unitary results for both
556     the correlation (slope) and correlation coefficient for these
557     regressions indicate perfect agreement between the real-space method
558     and the multipolar Ewald sum.
559    
560     Molecular systems were run long enough to explore independent
561     configurations and 250 configurations were recorded for comparison.
562     Each system provided 31,125 energy differences for a total of 186,750
563     data points. Similarly, the magnitudes of the forces and torques have
564     also been compared by using least squares regression analyses. In the
565     forces and torques comparison, the magnitudes of the forces acting in
566     each molecule for each configuration were evaluated. For example, our
567     dipolar liquid simulation contains 2048 molecules and there are 250
568     different configurations for each system resulting in 3,072,000 data
569     points for comparison of forces and torques.
570    
571 mlamichh 4166 \subsection{Analysis of vector quantities}
572 gezelter 4170 Getting the magnitudes of the force and torque vectors correct is only
573     part of the issue for carrying out accurate molecular dynamics
574     simulations. Because the real space methods reweight the different
575     orientational contributions to the energies, it is also important to
576     understand how the methods impact the \textit{directionality} of the
577     force and torque vectors. Fisher developed a probablity density
578     function to analyse directional data sets,
579 mlamichh 4162 \begin{equation}
580 gezelter 4170 p_f(\theta) = \frac{\kappa}{2 \sinh\kappa}\sin\theta e^{\kappa \cos\theta}
581 mlamichh 4162 \label{eq:pdf}
582     \end{equation}
583 gezelter 4170 where $\kappa$ measures directional dispersion of the data around the
584     mean direction.\cite{fisher53} This quantity $(\kappa)$ can be
585     estimated as a reciprocal of the circular variance.\cite{Allen91} To
586     quantify the directional error, forces obtained from the Ewald sum
587     were taken as the mean (or correct) direction and the angle between
588     the forces obtained via the Ewald sum and the real-space methods were
589     evaluated,
590 mlamichh 4162 \begin{equation}
591 gezelter 4170 \cos\theta_i = \frac{\vec{f}_i^\mathrm{~Ewald} \cdot
592     \vec{f}_i^\mathrm{~GSF}}{\left|\vec{f}_i^\mathrm{~Ewald}\right| \left|\vec{f}_i^\mathrm{~GSF}\right|}
593     \end{equation}
594     The total angular displacement of the vectors was calculated as,
595     \begin{equation}
596     R = \sqrt{\left(\sum\limits_{i=1}^N \cos\theta_i\right)^2 + \left(\sum\limits_{i=1}^N \sin\theta_i\right)^2}
597 mlamichh 4162 \label{eq:displacement}
598     \end{equation}
599 gezelter 4170 where $N$ is number of force vectors. The circular variance is
600     defined as
601     \begin{equation}
602     \mathrm{Var}(\theta) \approx 1/\kappa = 1 - R/N
603     \end{equation}
604     The circular variance takes on values between from 0 to 1, with 0
605     indicating a perfect directional match between the Ewald force vectors
606     and the real-space forces. Lower values of $\mathrm{Var}(\theta)$
607     correspond to higher values of $\kappa$, which indicates tighter
608     clustering of the real-space force vectors around the Ewald forces.
609 mlamichh 4162
610 gezelter 4170 A similar analysis was carried out for the electrostatic contribution
611     to the molecular torques as well as forces.
612    
613 mlamichh 4166 \subsection{Energy conservation}
614 gezelter 4170 To test conservation the energy for the methods, the mixed molecular
615     system of 2000 SSDQ water molecules with 24 \ce{Na+} and 24 \ce{Cl-}
616     ions was run for 1 ns in the microcanonical ensemble at an average
617     temperature of 300K. Each of the different electrostatic methods
618     (Ewald, Hard, SP, GSF, and TSF) was tested for a range of different
619     damping values. The molecular system was started with same initial
620     positions and velocities for all cutoff methods. The energy drift
621     ($\delta E_1$) and standard deviation of the energy about the slope
622     ($\delta E_0$) were evaluated from the total energy of the system as a
623     function of time. Although both measures are valuable at
624     investigating new methods for molecular dynamics, a useful interaction
625     model must allow for long simulation times with minimal energy drift.
626 mlamichh 4114
627 mlamichh 4166 \section{\label{sec:result}RESULTS}
628     \subsection{Configurational energy differences}
629     %The magnitude of the fluctuation in the total electrostatic energy per molecule for a dipolar crystal is very high as shown in (Fig … paper I).\cite{PaperI}As soon as, the net dipole moment within a cutoff radius is neutralized in the SP method, the magnitude of the fluctuation in the total electrostatic energy per molecule reduced significantly and rapidly converged to the correct energy constant (Refer figure … Paper I).\cite{PaperI} The GSF potential energy also converged to the correct energy constant for the cutoff radius rc = 6a for the undamped case. The potential energy from the TSF method converges towards the correct value for a very large cutoff radius. The speed of convergence for the all the cutoff methods can be increased by using damping function as shown in figure … Paper I\cite{PaperI}. For the quadrupolar crystals, the fluctuation in the total electrostatic energy for the hard cutoff method is small and short ranged as compared to the dipolar crystals (figure … in the paper I).\cite{PaperI} Similar to the dipolar crystals, the net quadrupolar neutralization of the cutoff sphere in the SP method reduces oscillation rapidly and converge electrostatic energy to the correct energy constant.
630     %The oscillation in the the electrostatic energy for the hard cutoff method is even true for the dipolar liquids as shown in Figure ~\ref{fig:rcutConvergence_dipolarLiquid}. As we placed image on the surface of the cutoff sphere in SP method, the oscillation in the energy is reduced. The fluctuation in the energy in liquid is much smaller as compared to the crystal (This result is similar to the results observed by \textit{Wolf et al.} in the case of ionic crystal and Mgo melt). The large magnitude in the fluctuation of the electrostatic energy in the crystal is because of large range of multipole ordering in the crystal. When the energy is evaluated by the direct truncation, it breaks up large number of multipolar ordering leaving behind net multipole moment. But in the case of liquid, there is only local ordering of the multipoles and their ordering disappears in the long range. Therefore, the direct truncation results a small oscillation in the electrostatic energy (which is smaller than deviation SP energy from the Ewald Figure ~\ref{fig:rcutConvergence_dipolarLiquid}) in the case of liquid. Although, the oscillation in the energy is very small for the case of liquid, this affects the change in potential energy ($\triangle E$), which is observed when $\triangle E$ evaluated from the SP method compared with Ewald as shown in figure 4a and 4b.
631     %\begin{figure}[h!]
632     % \centering
633     % \includegraphics[width=0.50 \textwidth]{rcutConvergence_dipolarLiquid-crop.pdf}
634     % \caption{The energy per molecule plotted against cutoff radius, rc for i) Hard ii) SP iii) GSF, and iv) TSF method. The hard cutoff method shows fluctuation in the electorstatic energy and it disappers in all other methods. }
635     % \label{fig:rcutConvergence_dipolarLiquid}
636     % \end{figure}
637     %In MC simulations, the electrostatic differences between the molecules are important parameter for sampling. We have compared $\triangle E$ from the different methods (Hard, SP, GSF, and TSF) with the Ewald using linear regression analysis. The correlation coefficient ($R^2$) of the regression line measures the deviation of the evaluated quantities from the mean slope. We know that Ewald method evaluates accurate value of the electrostatic energy. Hence, if the proposed methods can quantify the electrostatic energy as good as Ewald then the correlation coefficient is 1.The correlation coefficient is 0 for the completely random result for any physical quantity measured by the proposed method. The slope is a measure of the accuracy of the average of a physical quantity obtained from the proposed methods. If the slope is 1 then we can conclude that the average of the physical quantity measured by the method is as good as Ewald. The deviation of the slope from 1 state that the method used in quantifying physical quantities is statistically biased as compared to Ewald.
638     %\begin{figure}
639     % \centering
640     % \includegraphics[width=0.45 \textwidth]{slopeComparision_undamped.pdf}
641     % \label{fig:barGraph1}
642     % \end{figure}
643     % \begin{figure}
644     % \centering
645     % \includegraphics[width=0.45 \textwidth]{slopeComparision_undamped.pdf}
646     % \caption{}
647 mlamichh 4162
648 gezelter 4167 % \label{fig:barGraph2}
649     % \end{figure}
650 mlamichh 4166 %The correlation coefficient ($R^2$) and slope of the linear regression plots for the energy differences for all six different molecular systems is shown in figure 4a and 4b.The plot shows that the correlation coefficient improves for the SP cutoff method as compared to the undamped hard cutoff method in the case of SSDQC, SSDQ, dipolar crystal, and dipolar liquid. For the quadrupolar crystal and liquid, the correlation coefficient is almost unchanged and close to 1. The correlation coefficient is smallest (0.696276 for $r_c$ = 9 $A^o$) for the SSDQC liquid because of the presence of charge-charge and charge-multipole interactions. Since the charge-charge and charge-multipole interaction is long ranged, there is huge deviation of correlation coefficient from 1. Similarly, the quarupole–quadrupole interaction is short ranged ($\sim 1/r^6$) with compared to interactions in the other multipolar systems, thus the correlation coefficient very close to 1 even for hard cutoff method. The idea of placing image multipole on the surface of the cutoff sphere improves the correlation coefficient and makes it close to 1 for all types of multipolar systems. Similarly the slope is hugely deviated from the correct value for the lower order multipole-multipole interaction and slightly deviated for higher order multipole – multipole interaction. The SP method improves both correlation coefficient ($R^2$) and slope significantly in SSDQC and dipolar systems. The Slope is found to be deviated more in dipolar crystal as compared to liquid which is associated with the large fluctuation in the electrostatic energy in crystal. The GSF also produced better values of correlation coefficient and slope with the proper selection of the damping alpha (Interested reader can consult accompanying supporting material). The TSF method gives good value of correlation coefficient for the dipolar crystal, dipolar liquid, SSDQ, and SSDQC (not for the quadrupolar crystal and liquid) but the regression slopes are significantly deviated.
651 mlamichh 4114 \begin{figure}
652     \centering
653 mlamichh 4162 \includegraphics[width=0.50 \textwidth]{energyPlot_slopeCorrelation_combined-crop.pdf}
654 gezelter 4167 \caption{The correlation coefficient and regression slope of configurational energy differences for a given method with compared with the reference Ewald method. The value of result equal to 1(dashed line) indicates energy difference is indistinguishable from the Ewald method. Here different symbols represent different value of the cutoff radius (9 \AA\ = circle, 12 \AA\ = square 15 \AA\ = inverted triangle)}
655 mlamichh 4162 \label{fig:slopeCorr_energy}
656 mlamichh 4114 \end{figure}
657 mlamichh 4162 The combined correlation coefficient and slope for all six systems is shown in Figure ~\ref{fig:slopeCorr_energy}. The correlation coefficient for the undamped hard cutoff method is does not have good agreement with the Ewald because of the fluctuation of the electrostatic energy in the direct truncation method. This deviation in correlation coefficient is improved by using SP, GSF, and TSF method. But the TSF method worsens the regression slope stating that this method produces statistically more biased result as compared to Ewald. Also the GSF method slightly deviate slope but it can be alleviated by using proper value of damping alpha and cutoff radius. The SP method shows good agreement with Ewald method for all values of damping alpha and radii.
658 mlamichh 4114 \subsection{Magnitude of the force and torque vectors}
659 mlamichh 4166 The comparison of the magnitude of the combined forces and torques for the data accumulated from all system types are shown in Figure ~\ref{fig:slopeCorr_force}. The correlation and slope for the forces agree with the Ewald even for the hard cutoff method. For the system of molecules with higher order multipoles, the interaction is short ranged. Moreover, the force decays more rapidly than the electrostatic energy hence the hard cutoff method also produces good results. Although the pure cutoff gives the good match of the electrostatic force, the discontinuity in the force at the cutoff radius causes problem in the total energy conservation in MD simulations, which will be discussed in detail in subsection D. The correlation coefficient for GSF method also perfectly matches with Ewald but the slope is slightly deviated (due to extra term obtained from the angular differentiation). This deviation in the slope can be alleviated with proper selection of the damping alpha and radii ($\alpha = 0.2$ and $r_c = 12 A^o$ are good choice). The TSF method shows good agreement in the correlation coefficient but the slope is not good as compared to the Ewald.
660 mlamichh 4114 \begin{figure}
661     \centering
662 mlamichh 4162 \includegraphics[width=0.50 \textwidth]{forcePlot_slopeCorrelation_combined-crop.pdf}
663 gezelter 4167 \caption{The correlation coefficient and regression slope of the magnitude of the force for a given method with compared to the reference Ewald method. The value of result equal to 1(dashed line) indicates, the magnitude of the force from a method is indistinguishable from the Ewald method. Here different symbols represent different value of the cutoff radius (9 \AA\ = circle, 12 \AA\ = square 15 \AA\ = inverted triangle). }
664 mlamichh 4162 \label{fig:slopeCorr_force}
665 mlamichh 4114 \end{figure}
666 mlamichh 4162 The torques appears to be very influenced because of extra term generated when the potential energy is modified to get consistent force and torque. The result shows that the torque from the hard cutoff method has good agreement with Ewald. As the potential is modified to make it consistent with the force and torque, the correlation and slope is deviated as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:slopeCorr_torque} for SP, GSF and TSF cutoff methods. But the proper value of the damping alpha and radius can improve the agreement of the GSF with the Ewald method. The TSF method shows worst agreement in the slope as compared to Ewald even for larger cutoff radii.
667 mlamichh 4114 \begin{figure}
668     \centering
669 mlamichh 4162 \includegraphics[width=0.5 \textwidth]{torquePlot_slopeCorrelation_combined-crop.pdf}
670 mlamichh 4166 \caption{The correlation coefficient and regression slope of the magnitude of the torque for a given method with compared to the reference Ewald method. The value of result equal to 1(dashed line) indicates, the magnitude of the force from a method is indistinguishable from the Ewald method. Here different symbols represent different value of the cutoff radius (9 $A^o$ = circle, 12 $A^o$ = square 15 $A^o$ = inverted triangle).}
671 mlamichh 4162 \label{fig:slopeCorr_torque}
672 mlamichh 4114 \end{figure}
673     \subsection{Directionality of the force and torque vectors}
674 mlamichh 4166 The accurate evaluation of the direction of the force and torques are also important for the dynamic simulation.In our research, the direction data sets were computed from the purposed method and compared with Ewald using Fisher statistics and results are expressed in terms of circular variance ($Var(\theta$).The force and torque vectors from the purposed method followed Fisher probability distribution function expressed in equation~\ref{eq:pdf}. The circular variance for the force and torque vectors of each molecule in the 250 configurations for all system types is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:slopeCorr_circularVariance}. The direction of the force and torque vectors from hard and SP cutoff methods showed best directional agreement with the Ewald. The force and torque vectors from GSF method also showed good agreement with the Ewald method, which can also be improved by varying damping alpha and cutoff radius.For $\alpha = 0.2$ and $r_c = 12 A^o$, $ Var(\theta) $ for direction of the force was found to be 0.002061 and corresponding value of $\kappa $ was 485.20. Integration of equation ~\ref{eq:pdf} for that corresponding value of $\kappa$ showed that 95\% of force vectors are with in $6.37^o$. The TSF method is the poorest in evaluating accurate direction with compared to Hard, SP, and GSF methods. The circular variance for the direction of the torques is larger as compared to force. For same $\alpha = 0.2, r_c = 12 A^o$ and GSF method, the circular variance was 0.01415, which showed 95\% of torque vectors are within $16.75^o$.The direction of the force and torque vectors can be improved by varying $\alpha$ and $r_c$.
675 mlamichh 4162
676 mlamichh 4114 \begin{figure}
677     \centering
678 mlamichh 4162 \includegraphics[width=0.5 \textwidth]{Variance_forceNtorque_modified-crop.pdf}
679     \caption{The circular variance of the data sets of the direction of the force and torque vectors obtained from a given method about reference Ewald method. The result equal to 0 (dashed line) indicates direction of the vectors are indistinguishable from the Ewald method. Here different symbols represent different value of the cutoff radius (9 $A^o$ = circle, 12 $A^o$ = square 15 $A^o$ = inverted triangle)}
680     \label{fig:slopeCorr_circularVariance}
681 mlamichh 4114 \end{figure}
682 mlamichh 4166 \subsection{Total energy conservation}
683 mlamichh 4162 We have tested the conservation of energy in the SSDQC liquid system by running system for 1ns in the Hard, SP, GSF and TSF method. The Hard cutoff method shows very high energy drifts 433.53 KCal/Mol/ns/particle and energy fluctuation 32574.53 Kcal/Mol (measured by the SD from the slope) for the undamped case, which makes it completely unusable in MD simulations. The SP method also shows large value of energy drift 1.289 Kcal/Mol/ns/particle and energy fluctuation 0.01953 Kcal/Mol. The energy fluctuation in the SP method is due to the non-vanishing nature of the torque and force at the cutoff radius. We can improve the energy conservation in some extent by the proper selection of the damping alpha but the improvement is not good enough, which can be observed in Figure 9a and 9b .The GSF and TSF shows very low value of energy drift 0.09016, 0.07371 KCal/Mol/ns/particle and fluctuation 3.016E-6, 1.217E-6 Kcal/Mol respectively for the undamped case. Since the absolute value of the evaluated electrostatic energy, force and torque from TSF method are deviated from the Ewald, it does not mimic MD simulations appropriately. The electrostatic energy, force and torque from the GSF method have very good agreement with the Ewald. In addition, the energy drift and energy fluctuation from the GSF method is much better than Ewald’s method for reciprocal space vector value ($k_f$) equal to 7 as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:energyDrift} and ~\ref{fig:fluctuation}. We can improve the total energy fluctuation and drift for the Ewald’s method by increasing size of the reciprocal space, which extremely increseses the simulation time. In our current simulation, the simulation time for the Hard, SP, and GSF methods are about 5.5 times faster than the Ewald method.
684 mlamichh 4114 \begin{figure}
685     \centering
686 mlamichh 4166 \includegraphics[width=0.5 \textwidth]{log(energyDrift)-crop.pdf}
687 mlamichh 4162 \label{fig:energyDrift}
688 mlamichh 4114 \end{figure}
689     \begin{figure}
690     \centering
691 mlamichh 4166 \includegraphics[width=0.5 \textwidth]{logSD-crop.pdf}
692 mlamichh 4162 \caption{The plot showing (a) standard deviation, and (b) total energy drift in the total energy conservation plot for different values of the damping alpha for different cut off methods. }
693     \label{fig:fluctuation}
694 mlamichh 4114 \end{figure}
695     \section{CONCLUSION}
696 gezelter 4167 We have generalized the charged neutralized potential energy originally developed by the Wolf et al.\cite{Wolf:1999dn} for the charge-charge interaction to the charge-multipole and multipole-multipole interaction in the SP method for higher order multipoles. Also, we have developed GSF and TSF methods by implementing the modification purposed by Fennel and Gezelter\cite{Fennell:2006lq} for the charge-charge interaction to the higher order multipoles to ensure consistency and smooth truncation of the electrostatic energy, force, and torque for the spherical truncation. The SP methods for multipoles proved its suitability in MC simulations. On the other hand, the results from the GSF method produced good agreement with the Ewald's energy, force, and torque. Also, it shows very good energy conservation in MD simulations.
697 mlamichh 4162 The direct truncation of any molecular system without multipole neutralization creates the fluctuation in the electrostatic energy. This fluctuation in the energy is very large for the case of crystal because of long range of multipole ordering (Refer paper I).\cite{PaperI} This is also significant in the case of the liquid because of the local multipole ordering in the molecules. If the net multipole within cutoff radius neutralized within cutoff sphere by placing image multiples on the surface of the sphere, this fluctuation in the energy reduced significantly. Also, the multipole neutralization in the generalized SP method showed very good agreement with the Ewald as compared to direct truncation for the evaluation of the $\triangle E$ between the configurations.
698 gezelter 4170 In MD simulations, the energy conservation is very important. The
699     conservation of the total energy can be ensured by i) enforcing the
700     smooth truncation of the energy, force and torque in the cutoff radius
701     and ii) making the energy, force and torque consistent with each
702     other. The GSF and TSF methods ensure the consistency and smooth
703     truncation of the energy, force and torque at the cutoff radius, as a
704     result show very good total energy conservation. But the TSF method
705     does not show good agreement in the absolute value of the
706     electrostatic energy, force and torque with the Ewald. The GSF method
707     has mimicked Ewald’s force, energy and torque accurately and also
708     conserved energy. Therefore, the GSF method is the suitable method for
709     evaluating required force field in MD simulations. In addition, the
710     energy drift and fluctuation from the GSF method is much better than
711     Ewald’s method for finite-sized reciprocal space.
712    
713     Note that the TSF, GSF, and SP models are $\mathcal{O}(N)$ methods
714     that can be made extremely efficient using spline interpolations of
715     the radial functions. They require no Fourier transforms or $k$-space
716     sums, and guarantee the smooth handling of energies, forces, and
717     torques as multipoles cross the real-space cutoff boundary.
718    
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720 gezelter 4168 \newpage
721 mlamichh 4114 \bibliography{references}
722     \end{document}
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