On 5/17/15 5:47 AM, mah maz wrote:
Dear all, I want to calculate the radial distribution function of water molecules in my system. I use g_rdf -f traj.xtc -n -o. It gives me large numbers which is not logical I suppose. Is it meaningful if I separate oxygen and hydrogen atoms in the index file and calculate the RDF for O-O atoms? Is reference atom necessary to get RDF?
RDF is always calculated relative to a reference, but the default behavior is to consider all atom pairs; see the manual. It is generally standard practice in liquid RDF to separate out O-O vs. H-H etc. There is even an example figure of this in the manual.
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