Overlaps in ionic liquid after some simulation time

Dear LAMMPS users,

I am making some simulations about some ionic liquids. At first, I make a test.

In the test, I only put one molecular [(EMI+)(FSI-) in a big box. There is no overlaps between the cation and anion. But after a few steps, the positive charged atoms in cation attracts the negative charged atom in anion, and the two attracted atoms are highly overlapped. And the fix nve/limit can not resolve this problem.

I have checked the force field parameters and nothing is wrong. I do not know how to remove this question.

My in.file is below,

units real

boundary p p p

atom_style full #uncharged molecules, with bond, angle, dihedral, improper dihedral

bond_style harmonic

angle_style harmonic

dihedral_style opls

improper_style cvff

pair_style lj/cut/coul/long 12.0

#pair_style soft 2.5

pair_modify mix geometric tail yes

kspace_style pppm 1.0e-4

#read_restart restart.mix.*

read_data data.il

#read_restart restart.mix.*

#fix 1 all shake 0.0001 20 10 b 3

neighbor 2.0 bin

neigh_modify delay 0 every 1 check yes #delay 3

velocity all create 300.0 4567712 rot yes dist gaussian

compute 1 all temp

fix 2 all langevin 300.0 300.0 100.0 48279

fix 3 all nve/limit 0.1

timestep 0.1

dump 1 all custom 20 dump.atom.lammpstrj id q x y z

dump 2 all custom 200000 dump.force.* id mol type element fx fy fz

dump_modify 1 flush yes

dump_modify 2 flush yes

thermo_style custom step c_1 pe etotal vol lx ly lz

thermo 1000

thermo_modify flush yes

restart 100000 restart.mix.*

run 200000

And my force field parameters:

28 atoms

27 bonds

46 angles

47 dihedrals

5 impropers

15 atom types

13 bond types

23 angle types

25 dihedral types

2 improper types

0.000000000 24.000000000 xlo xhi

0.000000000 24.000000000 ylo yhi

0.000000000 24.000000000 zlo zhi

Masses

1 14.00 #N

2 12.00 #CR

3 1.00 #HR

4 12.00 #CW

5 12.00 #Cm

6 1.00 #Hw

7 1.00 #Hm

8 12.00 #Ca

9 1.00 #Ha

10 12.00 #Ct

11 1.00 #Ht

12 32.00 #Sbt

13 16.00 #Obt

14 19.00 #FSI

15 14.00 #Nbt

Pair Coeffs

1 1 0.170 3.25

2 2 0.070 3.55

3 3 0.030 2.42

4 4 0.070 3.55

5 5 0.066 3.50

6 6 0.030 2.42

7 7 0.030 2.50

8 8 0.066 3.50

9 9 0.030 2.50

10 10 0.066 3.50

11 11 0.030 2.50

12 12 0.250 3.55

13 13 0.210 2.96

14 14 0.053 2.95

15 15 0.170 3.25

Bond Coeffs

1 367.00 1.069 # CR-HR

2 367.00 1.068 # CW-H2

3 340.00 1.080 # CA-HA, CM-HM

4 340.00 1.084 # CT-HT

5 477.00 1.315 #CR-NA

6 427.00 1.378 #CW-NA

7 520.00 1.336 #CW-CW

8 337.00 1.476 #NA-CA

9 337.00 1.465 #NA-CM

10 268.00 1.521 # CA-CT

11 374.62979 1.57 #N-S

12 636.64374 1.437 #S-O

13 224.39572 1.575 #F-S

Angle Coeffs

1 33.00 109.80 # HM-CM-HM

2 37.50 109.20 # HM-CM-NA

3 70.00 126.40 # CM-NA-CR

4 70.00 125.60 # CM-NA-CW

5 35.00 125.10 # NA-CR-HR

6 70.00 109.80 # NA-CR-NA

7 70.00 107.90 # CR-NA-CW

8 70.00 107.10 # NA-CW-CW

9 35.00 122.00 # NA-CW-HW

10 35.00 130.90 # HW-CW-CW

11 70.00 125.30 # CW-NA-CA

12 70.00 126.80 # CR-NA-CA

13 37.50 107.50 # NA-CA-HA

14 37.50 111.20 # HA-CA-CT

15 33.00 108.90 # HA-CA-HA

16 37.50 110.70 # CA-CT-HT

17 33.00 107.90 # HT-CT-HT

18 58.35 112.60 # NA-CA-CT

19 115.72084 118.50 #O-S-O

20 94.22471 113.60 #O-S-N

21 80.1328 125.60 #S-N-S

22 107.7195 103.00 #F-S-N

23 128.61852 104.10 #F-S-O

Dihedral Coeffs

1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 # HM-CM-NA-CR

2 0.000 0.000 0.124 0.000 # HM-CM-NA-CW

3 0.000 4.651 0.000 0.000 # CM-NA-CR-HR

4 0.000 4.651 0.000 0.000 # CM-NA-CR-NA

5 0.000 3.000 0.000 0.000 # CM-NA-CW-CW

6 0.000 3.000 0.000 0.000 # CM-NA-CW-HW

7 0.000 4.651 0.000 0.000 # NA-CR-NA-CA

8 0.000 10.750 0.000 0.000 # NA-CW-CW-HW

9 0.000 10.750 0.000 0.000 # NA-CW-CW-NA

10 0.000 4.651 0.000 0.000 # HR-CR-NA-CW

11 0.000 3.000 0.000 0.000 # CR-NA-CW-HW

12 0.000 3.000 0.000 0.000 # CR-NA-CW-CW

13 0.000 4.651 0.000 0.000 # HR-CR-NA-CA

14 0.000 3.000 0.000 0.000 # HW-CW-NA-CA

15 0.000 3.000 0.000 0.000 # CW-CW-NA-CA

16 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 # CR-NA-CA-HA

17 0.000 0.000 0.318 0.000 # HA-CA-CT-HT

18 0.000 10.750 0.000 0.000 # HW-CW-CW-HW

19 0.000 4.651 0.000 0.000 # CW-NA-CR-NA

20 0.000 0.000 0.350 0.000 # NA CA CT HT

21 -0.599 -1.750 0.290 0.000 # CW NA CA CT

22 -0.555 0.479 0.200 0.000 # CR NA CA CT

23 -0.755 -2.125 0.400 0.000 #CW NA CA HA

24 0.0000 0.0000 -0.00358 0.0000 # O-S-N-S

25 2.73359 -3.62711 -0.76717 0.0000 # F-S-N-S

Improper Coeffs

1 1.00 -1 2 #x NA xx

2 1.10 -1 2 # x cw xx, x cr xx

Thank you very much in advance.

PingWu.

What part of the force field is supposed to
prevent overlaps? Is it doing it's job?

Steve

Hi, Steve,

     I found my mistake. I directly move the pair_coeff from the input file to the data file without changing the format, which results in the bad simulation.
    Thank you very much for your advice.

Best.

Ping Wu

What part of the force field is supposed to prevent overlaps? Is it doing it's job?

Steve