Hi Pengfei,
You can always add a bias (e.g. harmonic distance restraints) to any simulation, this also holds for QM/MM with mechanical and with electrostatic embedding. The text you refer to in the manual just points out that in mechanical embedding there is no direct effect of the embedding environment on the QM electron density through electronic polarization.
All the best,
Andy
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> On Jan 18, 2017, at 2:04 PM, Pengfei Li <ambermailpengfei.gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a quick question about doing QM/MM calculations with AMBER and Q-Chem. In the page 142 of Amber16 manual it said: "Mechanical embedding is useful to impose steric constraints on the embedded QM system” (after equation 10.4), does this mean the electrostatic embedding strategy is not applicable when someone want to add steric constraints (for example using harmonic constraints) on the atoms in the QM region? Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> Pengfei
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