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### pair_style lj/long/coul/long command

### pair_style lj/long/coul/long/omp command

### pair_style lj/long/tip4p/long command

Syntax:

    pair_style style args

- style = lj/long/coul/long or lj/long/tip4p/long
- args = list of arguments for a particular style

      lj/long/coul/long args = flag_lj flag_coul cutoff (cutoff2)
        flag_lj = long or cut
          long = use Kspace long-range summation for dispersion 1/r^6 term
          cut = use a cutoff
        flag_coul = long or off
          long = use Kspace long-range summation for Coulombic 1/r term
          off = omit Coulombic term
        cutoff = global cutoff for LJ (and Coulombic if only 1 arg) (distance units)
        cutoff2 = global cutoff for Coulombic (optional) (distance units)
      lj/cut/tip4p/long args = flag_lj flag_coul otype htype btype atype qdist cutoff (cutoff2)
        flag_lj = long or cut
          long = use Kspace long-range summation for dispersion 1/r^6 term
          cut = use a cutoff
        flag_coul = long or off
          long = use Kspace long-range summation for Coulombic 1/r term
          off = omit Coulombic term
        otype,htype = atom types for TIP4P O and H
        btype,atype = bond and angle types for TIP4P waters
        qdist = distance from O atom to massless charge (distance units)
        cutoff = global cutoff for LJ (and Coulombic if only 1 arg) (distance units)
        cutoff2 = global cutoff for Coulombic (optional) (distance units)

Examples:

    pair_style lj/long/coul/long cut off 2.5
    pair_style lj/long/coul/long cut long 2.5 4.0
    pair_style lj/long/coul/long long long 2.5 4.0
    pair_coeff * * 1 1
    pair_coeff 1 1 1 3 4

    pair_style lj/long/tip4p/long long long 1 2 7 8 0.15 12.0
    pair_style lj/long/tip4p/long long long 1 2 7 8 0.15 12.0 10.0
    pair_coeff * * 100.0 3.0
    pair_coeff 1 1 100.0 3.5 9.0

Description:

Style lj/long/coul/long computes the standard 12/6 Lennard-Jones and Coulombic potentials, given by

where C is an energy-conversion constant, Qi and Qj are the charges on the 2 atoms, epsilon is the dielectric constant which can be set by the dielectric command, and Rc is the cutoff. If one cutoff is specified in the pair_style command, it is used for both the LJ and Coulombic terms. If two cutoffs are specified, they are used as cutoffs for the LJ and Coulombic terms respectively.

The purpose of this pair style is to capture long-range interactions resulting from both attractive 1/r^6 Lennard-Jones and Coulombic 1/r interactions. This is done by use of the flag_lj and flag_coul settings. The In 't Veld paper has more details on when it is appropriate to include long-range 1/r^6 interactions, using this potential.

Style lj/cut/tip4p/long implements the TIP4P water model of (Jorgensen), which introduces a massless site located a short distance away from the oxygen atom along the bisector of the HOH angle. The atomic types of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms, the bond and angle types for OH and HOH interactions, and the distance to the massless charge site are specified as pair_style arguments.

IMPORTANT NOTE: For each TIP4P water molecule in your system, the atom IDs for the O and 2 H atoms must be consecutive, with the O atom first. This is to enable LAMMPS to "find" the 2 H atoms associated with each O atom. For example, if the atom ID of an O atom in a TIP4P water molecule is 500, then its 2 H atoms must have IDs 501 and 502.

See the howto section for more information on how to use the TIP4P pair style. Note that the neighobr list cutoff for Coulomb interactions is effectively extended by a distance 2*qdist when using the TIP4P pair style, to account for the offset distance of the fictitious charges on O atoms in water molecules. Thus it is typically best in an efficiency sense to use a LJ cutoff >= Coulomb cutoff + 2*qdist, to shrink the size of the neighbor list. This leads to slightly larger cost for the long-range calculation, so you can test the trade-off for your model.

If flag_lj is set to long, no cutoff is used on the LJ 1/r^6 dispersion term. The long-range portion is calculated by using the kspace_style ewald/n command. The specified LJ cutoff then determines which portion of the LJ interactions are computed directly by the pair potential versus which part is computed in reciprocal space via the Kspace style. If flag_lj is set to cut, the LJ interactions are simply cutoff, as with pair_style lj/cut.

If flag_coul is set to long, no cutoff is used on the Coulombic interactions. The long-range portion is calculated by using any style, including ewald/n of the kspace_style command. Note that if flag_lj is also set to long, then only the ewald/n Kspace style can perform the long-range calculations for both the LJ and Coulombic interactions. If flag_coul is set to off, Coulombic interactions are not computed.

The following coefficients must be defined for each pair of atoms types via the pair_coeff command as in the examples above, or in the data file or restart files read by the read_data or read_restart commands, or by mixing as described below:

- epsilon (energy units)
- sigma (distance units)
- cutoff1 (distance units)
- cutoff2 (distance units)

Note that sigma is defined in the LJ formula as the zero-crossing distance for the potential, not as the energy minimum at 2^(1/6) sigma.

The latter 2 coefficients are optional. If not specified, the global LJ and Coulombic cutoffs specified in the pair_style command are used. If only one cutoff is specified, it is used as the cutoff for both LJ and Coulombic interactions for this type pair. If both coefficients are specified, they are used as the LJ and Coulombic cutoffs for this type pair.

Note that if you are using flag_lj set to long, you cannot specify a LJ cutoff for an atom type pair, since only one global LJ cutoff is allowed. Similarly, if you are using flag_coul set to long, you cannot specify a Coulombic cutoff for an atom type pair, since only one global Coulombic cutoff is allowed.

For lj/long/tip4p/long only the LJ cutoff can be specified since a Coulombic cutoff cannot be specified for an individual I,J type pair. All type pairs use the same global Coulombic cutoff specified in the pair_style command.

Styles with a cuda, gpu, omp, or opt suffix are functionally the same as the corresponding style without the suffix. They have been optimized to run faster, depending on your available hardware, as discussed in Section_accelerate of the manual. The accelerated styles take the same arguments and should produce the same results, except for round-off and precision issues.

These accelerated styles are part of the USER-CUDA, GPU, USER-OMP and OPT packages, respectively. They are only enabled if LAMMPS was built with those packages. See the Making LAMMPS section for more info.

You can specify the accelerated styles explicitly in your input script by including their suffix, or you can use the -suffix command-line switch when you invoke LAMMPS, or you can use the suffix command in your input script.

See Section_accelerate of the manual for more instructions on how to use the accelerated styles effectively.

Mixing, shift, table, tail correction, restart, rRESPA info:

For atom type pairs I,J and I != J, the epsilon and sigma coefficients and cutoff distance for all of the lj/cut pair styles can be mixed. The default mix value is geometric. See the "pair_modify" command for details.

This pair style supports the pair_modify shift option for the energy of the Lennard-Jones portion of the pair interaction, assuming flag_lj is cut.

This pair style supports the pair_modify table option since it can tabulate the short-range portion of the long-range Coulombic interaction.

This pair style does not support the pair_modify tail option for adding a long-range tail correction to the Lennard-Jones portion of the energy and pressure.

This pair style writes its information to binary restart files, so pair_style and pair_coeff commands do not need to be specified in an input script that reads a restart file.

This pair style supports the use of the inner, middle, and outer keywords of the run_style respa command, meaning the pairwise forces can be partitioned by distance at different levels of the rRESPA hierarchy. See the run_style command for details.

Restrictions:

These styles are part of the KSPACE package. They are only enabled if LAMMPS was built with that package. See the Making LAMMPS section for more info. Note that the KSPACE package is installed by default.

Related commands:

pair_coeff

Default: none

(In 't Veld) In 't Veld, Ismail, Grest, J Chem Phys (accepted) (2007).