# NOTE: This script can be modified for different atomic structures, # units, etc. See in.elastic for more info. # # Define MD parameters # These can be modified by the user # These settings replicate the 1477~K benchmark of # Kluge, Ray, and Rahman (1986) that is Ref.[15] in: # Y. Zhen, C. Chu, Computer Physics Communications 183(2012) 261-265 # set log file variable logsuffix index ortho log log.elastic.${logsuffix} # select temperature and pressure (lattice constant) variable temp index 1477.0 # temperature of initial sample variable a index 5.457 # lattice constant # select sampling parameters, important for speed/convergence variable nthermo index 1500 # interval for thermo output variable nevery index 10 # stress sampling interval variable neveryborn index 100 # Born sampling interval variable timestep index 0.000766 # timestep variable nlat index 3 # number of lattice unit cells # other settings variable mass1 index 28.06 # mass variable tdamp index 0.01 # time constant for thermostat variable seed index 123457 # seed for thermostat variable thermostat index 1 # 0 if NVE, 1 if NVT variable delta index 1.0e-6 # Born numdiff strain magnitude # hard-coded rules-of-thumb for run length, etc. variable nfreq equal ${nthermo} # interval for averaging output variable nrepeat equal floor(${nfreq}/${nevery}) # number of samples variable nrepeatborn equal floor(${nfreq}/${neveryborn}) # number of samples variable nequil equal 10*${nthermo} # length of equilibration run variable nrun equal 100*${nthermo} # length of equilibrated run # this generates a general triclinic cell # conforming to LAMMPS cell (upper triangular) units metal box tilt large # unit lattice vectors are # a1 = (a1x 0 0) # a2 = (a2x a2y 0) # a3 = (a3x a3y a3z) variable a1x index 1 variable a2x index 0 variable a2y index 1 variable a3x index 0 variable a3y index 0 variable a3z index 1 variable atmp equal $a variable l index $a variable basis index "basis 0 0 0 basis 0.25 0.25 0.25 basis 0 0.5 0.5 basis 0.25 0.75 0.75 basis 0.5 0 0.5 basis 0.75 0.25 0.75 basis 0.5 0.5 0 basis 0.75 0.75 0.25" lattice custom ${l} & a1 ${a1x} 0 0 & a2 ${a2x} ${a2y} 0 & a3 ${a3x} ${a3y} ${a3z} & ${basis} & spacing 1 1 1 region box prism 0 ${a1x} 0 ${a2y} 0 ${a3z} ${a2x} ${a3x} ${a3y} create_box 1 box create_atoms 1 box mass 1 ${mass1} replicate ${nlat} ${nlat} ${nlat} velocity all create ${temp} 87287