[gmx-users] Need help creating md.mdp for silica(quartz)?

[Ekatherina O]

Hello  Justin Lemkul,
Thank you for the suggestions. I understood and already tried using 
transforms with trjconv. The picture got better.

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> Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 08:17:06 -0400
> From: Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Need help creating md.mdp for silica(quartz)?
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> On 5/7/20 4:24 AM, Ekatherina O wrote:
>> Hello Dr. Dallas Warren,
>> Thank you for the suggestions.
>> 
>> But this does not solve the problem of the movement of atoms of quartz
>> layers (upper and lower) located at the borders of the box. I would
>> like the quartz layers to remain intact during the modeling process,
>> i.e. atoms did not move and the initial structure was disturbed. How
>> can I solve this problem?
> 
> I will reiterate what Dallas has said - if you have atoms that are
> exactly at the bottom of the box, they effectively *are* the boundary
> and therefore can seem to "jump" back and forth. This has no 
> implication
> whatsoever on the physics, just visualization. You can "fix" the issue
> after the fact with trjconv.
> 
>> Can I freeze structure (atoms)? Since with a further increase in
>> simulation time, I observe the movement of quartz layers in the box. I
>> don?t need them to move.
>> 
> 
> Freezing is very artificial and leads to unphysical collisions. Avoid 
> if
> at all possible.
> 

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Yours sincerely,
Ekatherina O.
oeg at isc-ras.ru