Dear all,
first of all, sorry to this rather conceptional question, which is not
totally to GROMOACS related. But probably anyone of you can help.
In my simulations I use mesitylene as a solvent. In future i want to
coarse-grain the full atomic mesitylene to an effective one-particle.
For this i did a NPT-simulation to obtain the RDF (with regard to the
COM of the molecules) from which i want to calculate an effective
interaction potential by iterative boltzmann. The full-atomistic
simulations (slovate + solvent) employed a cut-off of 1.4 nm.
At this distance (1.4 nm) the RDF shows it second minimum (RDF=0.97) and
after 1.8 nm the RDF is around 1.0 +/- 0.15 (I got the RDF only up to a
distance of 2.3 nm).
Now my question is how long should be the table for the effective
potential (i.e. maximum distance for an interaction)? If i would use 1.4
nm, i would have a jump in the interaction potential (which is normal
due to the truncation of the cut-off). But for coulomb-interaction one
would have PME or other stuff which would correct the artifects to some
degree.
Or would it be better to use a long interaction table (interactions at
longer distances) and truncate the table at a distance after 1.4 nm
where the RDF is equal to 1?
Hope anybody can give some insight.
Greetings
Thomas
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