I have been trying to implement the electrostatic debye interaction using the coul/debye pair_style. I have followed all the instructions in the documentation and I am using the latest version of lammps(29 Sep 2021) with the following params file:
Is anything else I am missing out here? I would also like to clarify that I tried the same pair_style on its own without hybird/overlay and it still wouldn’t work?
Writing pair_style coul/debye with just one coefficient worked for me, thanks!
You’ve mentioned that pair_coeff commands only accept one parameter, however in the case of lj pair_style, the pair_coeffs enables for the setting of all the parameters. I was initially confused seeing different variable styles for different pair coeffs
Different potentials require different arguments for pair_style and pair_coeff commands. You have to look those up in the documentation of the individual pair style. For coulomb styles you almost always want no pair_coeff settings but just use the global values.