[CP2K-user] system's center of mass drifting during BOMD NVT simulation

[mh H]

if we don't consider COMVEL_TOL the results of calculations become wrong? 

On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 1:56:03 AM UTC+8, l... at lbl.gov wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have been studying water systems of different sizes for a while now (I 
> have attached here an example input file ). In these simulations I 
> consistently observe the center of mass of the system drifting (i.e. the 
> whole system is moving).
>
> I'm running BOMD in the NVT ensemble using a Nose-Hoover massive 
> thermostat chain. My best guess to explain the drift of the system is that 
> the random velocities imposed by the thermostat (maybe during 
> initialization) are not canceling out exactly. Is there a way of 
> constraining the momentum of the system's center of mass to get rid of this 
> issue?
>
> I am also observing a sort of estrange long term behavior in the 
> temperature where the temperature vs. time curve exhibits a long-wave 
> fluctuation (I have attached a plot here, x-axis is number of steps and 
> y-axis is temperature in K). I'm afraid this could be an artifact of the 
> thermostat.
>
> If this is not an artifact of the thermostat I am not quite sure what 
> could be causing it, any other ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Luis
>
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