OpenMD 3.1
Molecular Dynamics in the Open
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OpenMD::BondOrderParameter Class Reference

Bond Order Parameter. More...

#include <BondOrderParameter.hpp>

+ Inheritance diagram for OpenMD::BondOrderParameter:

Public Member Functions

 BondOrderParameter (SimInfo *info, const std::string &filename, const std::string &sele, double rCut, int nbins)
 
virtual void process ()
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from OpenMD::StaticAnalyser
 StaticAnalyser (SimInfo *info, const std::string &filename, unsigned int nbins)
 
void setOutputName (const std::string &filename)
 
const std::string & getOutputFileName () const
 
void setStep (int step)
 
int getStep () const
 
const std::string & getAnalysisType () const
 
void setAnalysisType (const std::string &type)
 
void setParameterString (const std::string &params)
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Protected Member Functions inherited from OpenMD::StaticAnalyser
virtual void writeOutput ()
 
- Protected Attributes inherited from OpenMD::StaticAnalyser
SimInfoinfo_ {nullptr}
 
std::string dumpFilename_
 
int step_
 
unsigned int nBins_
 
std::string outputFilename_
 
std::string analysisType_
 
std::string paramString_
 
std::vector< OutputDatadata_
 
std::vector< AtomType * > outputTypes_
 

Detailed Description

Bond Order Parameter.

Computes orientational bond order parameters as outlined in:

"Bond-orientaional order in liquids and glasses," by P. J. Steinhart, D. R. Nelson, and M. Ronchetti, Phys. Rev. B, 28, 784 (1983).

A somewhat more useful reference which has formulae for these order parameters for individual atoms is:

"Numerical calculation of the rate of crystal nucleation in a Lennard-Jones system at moderate undercooling," by Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Maria J. Ruiz-Montero, and Daan Frenkel, J. Chem. Phys. 104, pp. 9932-9947 (1996).

Note that this version uses a single cutoff radius to decide membership in the list of neighbors, and does not have use a distance-dependent weighting as used in the second reference above.

The selection script can be utilized to look at specific types of central atoms. A dynamic selector can also be utilized. By default, this class computes the

\[ Q_{l} \]

and

\[ \hat{W}_{l} \]

parameters up to

\[ l = 12 \]

. The completed configurational averages of these values as well as the distributions of atomic

\[ q_{l} \]

and

\[ \hat{w}_{l} \]

values are then placed in .boq and .bow files.

Definition at line 86 of file BondOrderParameter.hpp.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ BondOrderParameter()

OpenMD::BondOrderParameter::BondOrderParameter ( SimInfo * info,
const std::string & filename,
const std::string & sele,
double rCut,
int nbins )

Definition at line 59 of file BondOrderParameter.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

◆ process()

void OpenMD::BondOrderParameter::process ( )
virtual

Implements OpenMD::StaticAnalyser.

Definition at line 141 of file BondOrderParameter.cpp.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following files: