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-   VERSION: JULY, 2018
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-   This package contains the commands necessary to calculate and apply
-   electronic stopping effects via an inelastic energy-loss (IEL) force.
-   A detailed description of this method can be found in the following
-   papers:
-   
-   J.A. Stewart, G. Brookman, P. Price, M. Franco, W. Ji, K. Hattar,
-   R. Dingreville (2018) Characterizing single isolated radiation-damage
-   events from molecular dynamics via virtual diffraction methods. 
-   Journal of Applied Physics, 123(16), 165902.
-   
-   C.W. Lee, J.A. Stewart, S.M. Foiles, R. Dingreville, and A. Schleife 
-   (2020) Multiscale simulations of electron and ion dynamics in 
-   self-irradiated silicon. Physical Review B, 102(2), 024107.
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-   
-   USAGE AND INPUT:
-   
-   electron/stopping/fit: Calculates electronic stopping power and
-      cumulative energy lost to the electron gas via a quadratic
-      functional and applies a drag force to the classical equations 
-      of motion for atoms moving above some cutoff velocity.
-      
-      Usage : fix edrag all electron/stopping/fit 4.63 3.3e-3 4.0e-8
-      
-      Input : - Lower energy cutoff (Upper cutoff is assumed
-                to be 2x this value for truncation)
-              - Linear coefficient
-              - Quadratic coefficient (Usually taken = 0)
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-   AUTHOR INFORMATION:
-   
-   The primary contributors to this package are:
-      Stephen M. Foiles (Sandia National Laboratories)
-      James A. Stewart (Sandia National Laboratories)
-      
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-   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
-   
-   Thanks for additional contributions and development goes to:
-      Remi Dingreville (Sandia National Laboratories)
-      Elton Y. Chen (Sandia National Laboratories)
-      
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