From b5a31fa6f7e6e466f44c230a76a14bd8c6e1127a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giovanni Bussi <giovanni.bussi@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:39:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added note on #115 --- src/colvar/Energy.cpp | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/colvar/Energy.cpp b/src/colvar/Energy.cpp index 4afc5b388..326b82f09 100644 --- a/src/colvar/Energy.cpp +++ b/src/colvar/Energy.cpp @@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ Calculate the total energy of the simulation box. Total energy can be biased with umbrella sampling \cite bart-karp98jpcb or with well tempered metadynamics \cite Bonomi:2009p17935. +Notice that this CV could be unavailable with some MD code. When +it is available, and when also replica exchange is available, +metadynamics applied to ENERGY can be used to decrease the +number of required replicas. + +\bug Acceptance for replica exchange when \ref ENERGY is biased +is computed correctly only of all the replicas has the same +potential energy function. This is for instance not true when +using GROMACS with lambda replica exchange of with plumed-hrex branch. + \par Examples The following input instructs plumed to print the energy of the system \verbatim -- GitLab