md.bond

Overview

`Bond`	Constructs the bond potential.
`FENEWCA`	Bond potential that adds FENE to a WCA repulsive potential.
`Harmonic`	Harmonic bond potential.
`Tether`	Tethering bond potential.

Details

Bond potentials.

class hoomd.md.bond.Bond

Bases: hoomd.md.force.Force

Constructs the bond potential.

Note

Bond is the base class for all bond potentials. Users should not instantiate this class directly.

class hoomd.md.bond.FENEWCA

Bases: hoomd.md.bond.Bond

Bond potential that adds FENE to a WCA repulsive potential.

FENEWCA computes the energy and force from the FENE and WCA potentials between the two particles in each defined bond:

\[V(r) = - \frac{1}{2} k r_0^2 \ln \left( 1 - \left( \frac{r - \Delta}{r_0} \right)^2 \right) + V_{\mathrm{WCA}}(r)\]

where

\begin{eqnarray*} V_{\mathrm{WCA}}(r) = & 4 \varepsilon \left[ \left( \frac{\sigma}{r - \Delta} \right)^{12} - \left( \frac{\sigma}{r - \Delta} \right)^{6} \right] + \varepsilon; & r-\Delta < 2^{\frac{1}{6}}\sigma\\ = & 0; & r-\Delta \ge 2^{\frac{1}{6}}\sigma \end{eqnarray*}

, \(r\) is the distance from one particle to the other in the bond, \(k\) is the attractive force strength, \(r_0\) is the size of the bond, \(\varepsilon\) is the repulsive interaction energy, and \(sigma\) is the repulsive interaction width.

params

The parameter of the FENE potential bonds. The dictionary has the following keys:

k (float, required) - attractive force strength \(k\) \([\mathrm{energy} \cdot \mathrm{length}^{-2}]\).
r0 (float, required) - size parameter \(r_0\) \([\mathrm{length}]\).
epsilon (float, required) - repulsive force strength \(\varepsilon\) \([\mathrm{energy}]\).
sigma (float, required) - repulsive force interaction width \(\sigma\) \([\mathrm{length}]\).
delta (float, required) - radial shift \(\Delta\) \([\mathrm{length}]\).

Type: TypeParameter[bond type, dict]

Examples:

fenewca = bond.FENEWCA()
fenewca.params['A-A'] = dict(k=3.0, r0=2.38, epsilon=1.0, sigma=1.0,
                             delta=0.0)
fenewca.params['A-B'] = dict(k=10.0, r0=1.0, epsilon=0.8, sigma=1.2,
                             delta=0.0)

class hoomd.md.bond.Harmonic

Bases: hoomd.md.bond.Bond

Harmonic bond potential.

Harmonic specifies a harmonic potential energy between the two particles in each defined bond.

\[V(r) = \frac{1}{2} k \left( r - r_0 \right)^2\]

where \(r\) is the distance from one particle to the other in the bond.

params

The parameter of the harmonic bonds for each particle type. The dictionary has the following keys:

k (float, required) - potential constant \([\mathrm{energy} \cdot \mathrm{length}^{-2}]\)
r0 (float, required) - rest length \([\mathrm{length}]\)

Type: TypeParameter[bond type, dict]

Examples:

harmonic = bond.Harmonic()
harmonic.params['polymer'] = dict(k=3.0, r0=2.38)
harmonic.params['backbone'] = dict(k=10.0, r0=1.0)

class hoomd.md.bond.Tether

Bases: hoomd.md.bond.Bond

Tethering bond potential.

Tether specifies a Tethering potential energy between two particles in each defined bond.

The tethered network is described in Refs. Gompper, G. & Kroll, D. M. Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces 2nd edn (eds Nelson, D. R. et al.) 359-426 (World Scientific, 2004) and Noguchi, H. & Gompper, G., Phys. Rev. E 72 011901 (2005).

\[V(r) = V_{\mathrm{att}}(r) + V_{\mathrm{rep}}(r)\]

where \(r\) is the distance from one particle to the other in the bond.

\begin{eqnarray*} V_{\mathrm{att}}(r) = & k_b \frac{exp(1/(l_{c0}-r)}{l_{max}-r}; & r > l_{c0}\\ = & 0; & r \leq l_{c0} \end{eqnarray*}

\[\begin{split}\begin{eqnarray*} V_{\mathrm{rep}}(r) = & k_b \frac{exp(1/(r-l_{c1})}{r-l_{min}}; & r < l_{c1}\\ = & 0; & r \ge l_{c1} \end{eqnarray*}\end{split}\]

\[l_{min} < l_{c1} < l_{c0} < l_{max}\]

params

The parameter of the Tethering potential bonds. The dictionary has the following keys:

k_b (float, required) - bond stiffness \([\mathrm{energy}]\)
l_min (float, required) - minimum bond length \([\mathrm{length}]\)
l_c1 (float, required) - cutoff distance of repulsive part \([\mathrm{length}]\)
l_c0 (float, required) - cutoff distance of attractive part \([\mathrm{length}]\)
l_max (float, required) - maximum bond length \([\mathrm{length}]\)

Type: TypeParameter[bond type, dict]

Examples:

bond_potential = bond.Tether()
bond_potential.params['tether'] = dict(k_b=10.0, l_min=0.9, l_c1=1.2,
                                       l_c0=1.8, l_max=2.1)