[gmx-developers] [gmx-users] Wrong Nose-Hoover integrator

[Michel Cuendet]

Hi,

To maybe conclude this old thread about calculating the temperature
within a leap-frog scheme, a little paper just came out :-)

http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/127/184102/1

Cheers,
Michel


Berk Hess wrote:
> If the (say correct) half step temperature of 300 K gives a full  
> step temperature
> of 297.8 K, this means that the actual temperature of all water  
> simulations
> done with Gromacs is 2.2 K too high as we couple the full step  
> temperature
> to 300 K. It is even worse for my 4 fs water runs, which are 9 K  
> too high.

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