AMDAT

trajectory_bin_list

creating and deleting trajectory_bin_list objects

Command Effect
create_bin_list Creates a list of all trajectories based on a binning scheme
remove_bin_list Deletes a bin list from memory

Analyzing trajectory_bin_list objects

Analysis commands that target trajectory list objects

Similarly to trajectory_list, these commands’ syntax includes a “type” line, which has the name of the analysis method, followed by a “target” line. This target line involves specifying a defined trajectory_bin_list and a trajectory_list. Analysis will occur on a bin-by-bin basis as determined by the trajectory_bin_list specified. Only those particles included in the specified trajectory_list at each time will be employed in the analysis. The syntax of the target line is as follows.

bin_list <name of trajectory_bin_list> <name of trajectory_list> <persistence check? 0 or 1 (optional)>

Put another way, this takes the intersection of the trajectory_list and each bin of the trajectory_bin_list, and performs the calculation on each bin individually. The analysis will in general output a separate tab-demarcated file for each bin, which may produce a large number of files. An ending will be appended to the name of each output file with the bin indicies (e.g. <output file>.2.1.2.bindata)

The optional argument <persistence check> specifies whether or not, for dynamic analyses, the algorithm retains only particles that are in the bin at start and end times of a given time gap. The default is zero, meaning this check is not performed.

Command Effect Output
composition Calculates the composition and number density. Tab demarcated data file
find_edge Finds the leading edge of a set of particles along a vector. Tab demarcated data file
incremental_mean_displacement Calculates mean displacement of particles as a function of time. Tab demarcated data file.
isfs Calculates the self-part of the intermediate scattering function. Tab demarcated data file
mean_displacement Calculates the mean (not mean square) displacement vector of all particles as a function of time. Tab demarcated data file
msd Calculates the mean-square displacement. Tab demarcated data file
msd_2d Calculates the two-dimensional mean-square displacement. Tab demarcated data file
structure_factor Computes the structure factor. Tab demarcated data file
trajectory_list_decay Computes an autocorrelation function for inclusion in the trajectory_list. Tab demarcated data file
unsteady_velocity Calculates mean velocity as a function of time, provided that velocities were read in at file read time. Tab demarcated data file.
write_bin_xyz Writes xyz files for all bins. Series of xyz trajectory files