[gmx-users] electric fields

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Feb 15 19:59:40 CET 2015



On 2/15/15 1:56 PM, David van der Spoel wrote:
> On 2015-02-15 18:35, Justin Lemkul wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/15/15 12:31 PM, mah maz wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I need to apply magnetic and also alternating electric field to my
>>> system,
>>> but I can't find any options. Can anyone help me?
>>
>> Probably because those options don't exist.  Constant electric fields
>> are described in manual section 7.3.26 (conveniently entitled "Electric
>> fields"). Beyond that, if it's not in the manual, it's not in GROMACS.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
> Not entirely correct. Alternating electric fields work fine. You need to supply
> both E-x and E-xt fields in the mdp file.

Then perhaps it's time to update the documentation for E-[xyz]t to something 
other than "not implemented yet" :)

-Justin

> Magnetic fields we don't have.
>

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