[gmx-users] PME/Ewald

[Jason de Joannis]

> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:25:33 +0100 (BST)
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> Hi Jason,
>
> Thank you very much for your very informative mail. How about the accuracy
> of PME over the Ewald on a small system?
>
> With regards,
>
> Abu
>

Lattice summation techniques like Ewald, PME and MMM all converge. That
is in contrast, if I am not mistaken, to the reaction field method.
That is to say, you may choose any epsilon, no matter how small, and find
parameters for the summation that produce an error smaller than epsilon.
Therefore you need only choose PME parameters that provide your desired
accuracy. Various measures of accuracy as well as predictive formulas
exist in the literature for those doing precise work.

 /Jason

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