Reviews in Computational Chemistry Volume 18
Reviews in Computational Chemistry Volume 18
Reviews in Computational Chemistry Volume 18
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two to three orders of magnitude slower than comparable nonpolarizable calculations.<br />
63 Various approximate methods, <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>complete convergence<br />
or updat<strong>in</strong>g only a subset of the dipoles, have been suggested. 59 Unfortunately,<br />
these methods result <strong>in</strong> significant errors <strong>in</strong> computed physical properties. 19,63<br />
Monte Carlo methods are capable of mov<strong>in</strong>g more than one particle at a time,<br />
with good acceptance ratios, 64,65 us<strong>in</strong>g, for example, the hybrid MC technique,<br />
but this method has not been applied to polarizable models, as far as<br />
we are aware.<br />
One f<strong>in</strong>al po<strong>in</strong>t concerns the long-range nature of the <strong>in</strong>teractions <strong>in</strong><br />
dipole-based models. Dipole–dipole and dipole–charge <strong>in</strong>teractions are termed<br />
long range because they do not decrease faster than volume grows—that is, as<br />
r 3 . If periodic boundary conditions are used, some treatment of the long-range<br />
<strong>in</strong>teractions is needed. The most complete treatment of the long-range forces is<br />
the Ewald summation technique. 64,66 All models, whether polarizable or not,<br />
face this problem if they have long-range forces, but for polarizable models<br />
this is a more significant issue. The use of cut-offs or other truncation schemes<br />
will change both the static field and the dipole field tensor. These changes to<br />
the electric field will modify the value of the <strong>in</strong>duced dipole, which <strong>in</strong> turn will<br />
change the field at other sites. Accord<strong>in</strong>gly, the treatment of long-range forces<br />
feeds back on itself <strong>in</strong> a way that does not occur with nonpolarizable models.<br />
It is thus crucial to treat the long-range <strong>in</strong>teractions as accurately as possible <strong>in</strong><br />
polarizable simulations. Nevertheless, a large number, if not most, of the simulations<br />
us<strong>in</strong>g polarizable potentials have not used Ewald sums. Recently,<br />
Nymand and L<strong>in</strong>se 67 showed that different boundary conditions (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Ewald sums, spherical cut-off, and reaction field methods) lead to more significant<br />
differences <strong>in</strong> equilibrium, dynamical, and structural properties for<br />
polarizable water models than for nonpolarizable models.<br />
Conventional methods for perform<strong>in</strong>g the Ewald sum scale as OðN 3=2 Þ<br />
or OðN 2 Þ, 68 and formulations specifically designed to <strong>in</strong>clude dipole–dipole<br />
<strong>in</strong>teractions 66 are <strong>in</strong> fairly wide use. Faster scal<strong>in</strong>g methods, such as the fast<br />
multipole and particle–mesh algorithms, have also been extended to the treatment<br />
of po<strong>in</strong>t dipoles. 50,69<br />
SHELL MODELS<br />
Shell Models 99<br />
A def<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g feature of the models discussed <strong>in</strong> the previous section,<br />
regardless of whether they are implemented via matrix <strong>in</strong>version, iterative<br />
techniques, or predictive methods, is that they all treat the polarization<br />
response <strong>in</strong> each polarizable center us<strong>in</strong>g po<strong>in</strong>t dipoles. An alternative<br />
approach is to model the polarizable centers us<strong>in</strong>g dipoles of f<strong>in</strong>ite length,<br />
represented by a pair of po<strong>in</strong>t charges. A variety of different models of polarizability<br />
have used this approach, but especially noteworthy are the shell<br />
models frequently used <strong>in</strong> simulations of solid-state ionic materials.