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| mass  || <math>m_0 </math>|| <math>1.66054\times10^{-27} </math> kilograms ([[amu]])
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| charge || <math>q_0 </math>|| <math>1.60218\times10^{-19} </math> Coulombs (electron charge)
| charge || <math>q_0 </math>|| <math>1.60218\times10^{-19} </math> Coulombs (electron charge)

Revision as of 11:02, 25 October 2007

DL_POLY is a general purpose serial and parallel molecular dynamics simulation package developed at Daresbury Laboratory by W. Smith, T.R. Forester and I.T. Todorov.

It employs an interesting set of units with molecular relevance:

physical quantity symbol unit value
time t0 1×10−12 seconds (picoseconds)
length l0 1×10−10 metres (Angstroms)
mass m0 1.66054×10−27 kilograms (amu)
charge q0 1.60218×10−19 Coulombs (electron charge)
energy E0=m0(l0/t0)2 1.66054×10−23 Joules = 10 J mol −1
pressure p0=E0/l03 1.66054×107 Pascal = 166.054 bar
Planck constant ℏ 6.35078E0t0
Boltzmann constant kB 0.83145E0/K


References

  1. W. Smith, C. W. Yong and P. M. Rodger "DL_POLY: application to molecular simulation", Molecular Simulation 28 pp. 385-471 (2002)