[ase-users] query on code in NeighborList [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Jakob Schiøtz]

On 15 Feb, 2011, at 9:32, jensj at fysik.dtu.dk wrote:
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> Yes.  It's being a bit more cleaver than the EMT implementation which will
> find all neighbor pairs twice.


To elaborate a bit:  There are two types of neighbor lists, "half" neighbor lists and "full" neighbor lists.  In a full neighbor list, all atoms have all their neighbors.  In a half neighbor list, all pairs of atoms appear only once, so if a is on b's list, b will NOT be on a's list.  Most simple classical potentials would use a half neighbor list to calculate each interaction only once, whereas for analysis a full neighbor list is often more convenient.

Jakob

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