<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Berk.<div>I did look at the code, but it is not that easy to understand.</div><div>My conclusion comes from this:</div><div>for a diffusive regime, G(r) should be a gaussian function, with the diffusion</div><div>coefficient characterizing the width.</div><div>I did some tests, and I could match both curves (one from g_vanhove and </div><div>the other from the diff.coef) only if I multiply the output of g_vanhove by r and normalizing again, which makes little sense to me.</div><div>It would be ok to output G(r) or r^2*G(r), but to output r*G(r) seems a mistake</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Marcelo</div><div><br></div><div>PS: I did consider the spherical integration.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Berk Hess wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi,<br><br>You can look at the code yourself :)<br><br>I coded this and -or (which I assume you are talking about)<br>is G with 1/nm as a unit.<br>It gives the probability that a particle has moved a distance r.<br>The 1/nm is the normalization to make the values bin-size independent.<br><br>Might it be that the difference in interpretation comes from if you consider<br>normalization of the volume of sphere-shells or not?<br><br>Berk<br><br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cari@purdue.edu">cari@purdue.edu</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a><br>> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:25:33 -0400<br>> Subject: [gmx-users] g_vanhove output<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Hi all,<br>> I believe there is a mistake in g_vanhove in version 4.0.5<br>> The 'xvg' output file labels the y axis as G, with nm^-1 as units.<br>> From the units, I guessed that the output was actually r^2 G, however<br>> the initial slope is linear and not quadratic. 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