Nuclephile Substitution CH3Cl - mMD3

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Task

In this example the nucleophile substitution of a Cl^- by another Cl^- in CH₃Cl via meta dynamics is simulated using two collective variables simultaneously.

Input

POSCAR

   1.00000000000000
     9.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    9.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    9.0000000000000000
   C    H    Cl
   1   3   2
Direct
  0.1570348572197245  0.2904054711139102  0.1422643997559632
  0.1466469234176954  0.4066467848992589  0.1077433527138946
  0.0469134772399311  0.2399491465236156  0.1544210764126938
  0.2197893311177821  0.2820094213788985  0.2462070949679763
  0.9809163623144840  0.4723904404063168  0.3674924467383788
  0.2601754409903839  0.1874592103557934  0.9964911656110944

KPOINTS

Automatic
 0
Gamma
 1  1  1
 0. 0. 0.

• For isolated atoms and molecules interactions between periodic images are negligible (in sufficiently large cells) hence no Brillouin zone sampling is necessary.

INCAR

PREC=Low
EDIFF=1e-6
LWAVE=.FALSE.
LCHARG=.FALSE.
NELECT=22
NELMIN=4
LREAL=.FALSE.
ALGO=VeryFast
ISMEAR=-1
SIGMA=0.0516

############################# MD setting #####################################
IBRION=0                                           # MD simulation
NSW=1000                                           # number of steps
POTIM=1                                            # integration step
TEBEG=600                                          # simulation temperature
MDALGO=11                                          # metaDynamics with Andersen thermostat
ANDERSEN_PROB=0.10                                 # collision probability
HILLS_BIN=50                                       # update the time-dependent bias
                                                             # potential every 50 steps
HILLS_H=0.005                                      # height of the Gaussian
HILLS_W=0.05                                       # width of the Gaussian
##############################################################################

ICONST

R 1 5 5
R 1 6 5

• In contrast to the previous examples two collective variables are used simultaneously (and no combination of them).

PENALTYPOT

   5.00000   1.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   2.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   3.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   4.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   5.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   1.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   2.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   3.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000
   4.00000   5.00000   9.00000   0.50000

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