VACF like white nosie

Dear Lammps user

when I use compute vacf to calculate the methane, the output is like white noise as shown in the picture.

“compute vacf all vacf 1 1 1
fix 3 all ave/time 10 10 100 c_vacf[4] file vacf.dat”

Here is the main script:

units real
variable T equal 95
variable Pressure equal 100
variable V equal vol
variable dt equal 0.01
variable p equal 400 # correlation length
variable s equal 1 # sample interval
variable d equal $p*$s # dump interval
variable steps equal 500000

convert from LAMMPS real units to SI

variable kB equal 1.3806504e-23 # [J/K] Boltzmann
variable kCal2J equal 4186.0/6.02214e23
variable A2m equal 1.0e-10
variable fs2s equal 1.0e-15
variable atm2Pa equal 101325.0

variable convertK equal {kCal2J}*{kCal2J}/{fs2s}/{A2m}
variable convertV equal {atm2Pa}*{atm2Pa}{fs2s}*{A2m}{A2m}*{A2m}

boundary p p p
atom_style full
read_data methane0.27.data

pair_style lj/cut/coul/cut 15
bond_style harmonic
angle_style harmonic
pair_modify mix geometric tail yes
special_bonds lj/coul 0.0 0.0 0.5
pair_coeff 1 1 0.066 3.5 # CT
pair_coeff 2 2 0.03 2.5 # HC
pair_coeff 1 2 0.044497191 3 # HC

the remaining parameters are inferred from mixing.

bond_coeff 1 340.0 1.09 # CT-HC
angle_coeff 1 33.0 107.8 # HC-CT-HC
#bond_coeff 1 2845.12 1.09 # CT-HC
#angle_coeff 1 276.14 107.8 # HC-CT-HC

neighbor 1.5 bin
neigh_modify every 10 delay 20 check yes
fix 1 all npt temp $T T 100 drag 0.2 iso {Pressure} ${Pressure} 1000
thermo_style custom step temp pe ke press vol density
velocity all create T 432567 dist uniform timestep {dt}
thermo $d
run 100000
reset_timestep 0

compute vacf all vacf 1 1 1
fix 3 all ave/time 10 10 100 c_vacf[4] file vacf.dat

run ${steps}

Any useful advice is appreciate.
best ragars!
cheng

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Dear Lammps user

when I use compute vacf to calculate the methane, the output is like white
noise as shown in the picture.

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Any useful advice is appreciate.

​please consider the following: if you want help and support, the minimum
you should be doing, is ​to ask specific questions and explain *why* you
think you need somebody's advice. just dumping your data on people and
hoping they will do your work for you, is quite rude.

also, there is too much vital information missing (LAMMPS version, platform
you are running on, specifics of the system you are simulating (how many
methane molecules)
one thing is for certain, your VACF seems sufficiently converged after
150,000 steps. so why run longer? and not rather collect multiple samples?

axel.