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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 13:02, 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 seconds (picoseconds)
length metres (Angstroms)
mass kilograms (amu)
charge Coulombs (electron charge)
energy Joules = 10 J mol
pressure Pascal = 166.054 bar
Planck constant
Boltzmann constant


References

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