DL POLY

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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. DL_POLY employs an interesting set of units which have 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)