Dear all,<div><br /><div>I'm trying to carry out umbrella sampling of a dihedral angle (torsion) using the MOTION / CONSTRAINT / COLLECTIVE / RESTRAINT section in CP2K. I came across a problem with the unit of the force constant K. I understand that users can specify energy units like kJ/mol to the constant, but the actual unit of the constant should contain the unit of the torsion angle as well, say kJ/(mol-rad^2) or kJ/(mol-deg^2). I am wondering what unit is used for the torsion part in the unit of K. Does it use the same user-specified unit for TARGET when running MD simulations? Or does it use the default angle unit for the constant?</div><div><br /></div><div>As an example, below is my input for the CONSTRAINT section:</div><div><br /></div><div> &CONSTRAINT<br /> &COLLECTIVE<br /> COLVAR 1<br /> TARGET [deg] 10<br /> INTERMOLECULAR .TRUE.<br /> &RESTRAINT<br /> K [kjmol] 100.0<br /> &END RESTRAINT<br /> &END COLLECTIVE<br /> &END CONSTRAINT<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>from which my intention was to use a 100 kJ/(mol-deg^2) force constant for my bias. Yet what I found from my restart file (generated automatically by CP2K using its default unit) is:</div></div><div><br /></div><div> &CONSTRAINT<br /> &COLLECTIVE<br /> COLVAR 1<br /> INTERMOLECULAR T<br /> TARGET 1.7453292519943295E-01<br /> &RESTRAINT<br /> K 3.8087988796022196E-02<br /> &END RESTRAINT<br /> &END COLLECTIVE<br /> &COLVAR_RESTART<br /> 1.7453292519943295E-01<br /> &END COLVAR_RESTART<br /> &END CONSTRAINT<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>in which the force constant seems to be 100 kJ/(mol-rad^2), which is 0.03 kJ/(mol-deg^2). </div><div>(K = 3.808E-02 hartree = 100kJ/mol, and TARGET = 1.745E-01 rad = 10 degree)</div><div><br /></div><div>I would really appreciate any help in understanding the units here. Thank you!</div><div><br /></div><div>With regards,</div><div>Yuqing Fu</div><div><br /></div>
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