Re: [AMBER] Calculating second rank Legendre polynomial C_2(t) autocorrelation function

From: George M Giambasu <giambasu.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:50:30 -0500

> In one of the literature, (Biophysical Journal 87(5) 2976-2989), they used equation as below:

> C_2(t) = 1/2 < 3(u(t)-u(0))^2 - 1>, where the "u" is the unit vector.


The "u(t)-u(0)" term should be instead "u(t).u(0)" for vectorial dot
product. And yes, (cp)ptraj uses unit vectors to compute this type of
correlation functions.

George

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