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Thus I am a bit confused about it!<br>
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I'm confused about the manual comment about only being meaningful with the MD integrator, but we'll have to wait until someone who knows something about LD can post!</blockquote></div><br>For LD, the velocities will (should) get rescaled by the random thermal noise, that is- by the Langivin thermostat.<br>
With MD, the thermostat works like friction (positive or negative friction).<br>So you see, that for LD, an initial velocity of zero should next be changed by the thermostat, while for MD the rescaling shouldn't work for zero.<br>
<br>--Omer Markovitch.<br> <br>Koby Levy research group,<br>Weizmann Institute of Science. <br><a href="http://www.weizmann.ac.il/sb/faculty_pages/Levy/">http://www.weizmann.ac.il/sb/faculty_pages/Levy/</a><br>
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