Autocorrelation functions of charge dipole moments in DL_MESO_DPD

Purpose of Module

This module, gen_dipoleaf.f90, is a generalization of the dipoleaf.f90 post-processing utility of DL_MESO_DPD, the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) code from the DL_MESO package.

It processes the trajectory (HISTORY) files to obtain the charge dipole moments of all the (neutral) molecules in the system, and subsequently computes the dipole autocorrelation functions (DAFs) for each molecule type. It produces a file DIPAFDAT containing both the un-normalized and normalized DAFs, and, optionally, a file DIPAFFFT containing the Fourier transform (FT) of the latter.

The module can be applied to systems including molecules with a generic charge structure, as long as each molecule is neutral (otherwise the charge dipole moment would be frame-dependent) [1].

CAVEAT: this module only analyzes molecular trajectories. If a charged molecule is present, an error message will be given, while unbonded charges will not be detected and erroneous results may be obtained. Therefore please keep in mind to not apply this module to systems with unbonded charges.

The charge dipole moment of a neutral molecule is \vec{p}_{mol}=\sum_{i\in mol}q_i \vec{r}_i where \vec{r}_i are the bead positions and q_i their charges. The total charge dipole moment of the simulated volume V is \vec{P}=\sum_{mol\in V} \vec{p}_{mol}. If more than one molecular species are present, one can split \vec{P} into the different species contributions: \vec{P}=\sum_{j = 1}^{nmoldef} \vec{P}_j.

Given a scalar quantity A, its non-normalized autocorrelation function (AF) is C_{AA}(t) = \langle A(0)A(t)\rangle, where \langle\dots\rangle indicates an average over trajectories. The normalized one is c_{AA}(t) = \frac {\langle A(0)A(t)\rangle}{\langle A(0)A(0)\rangle} = \frac{C_{AA}(t)}{C_{AA}(0)} [2].

Here for the j -th molecular species we replace A with \vec{P}_j, and the product with a scalar product. In this case the average over trajectories translates into a sum over different time origins.

The output file DIPAFDAT contains the DAFs for each molecular species and, at the end of the file, the DAF for the system total charge dipole moment \vec{P}. The output file DIPAFFFT contains the FT of these functions, in the same order.

More in detail, the header of the file DIPAFDAT contains the simulation title and a line with the number of snapshots in HISTORY and of those used for the AFs (naf). Then a block follows for each molecule type, started by the {molecule name}, then three columns of data, t, C_{\vec{P}\vec{P}},c_{\vec{P}\vec{P}}. It is intended that in any block only the contribution to \vec{P} from a given species is used. The last block is called {all species} and refers to the full system charge dipole moment.

The header of the file DIPAFFFT is as for DIPAFDAT (notice that the number of points for the FT is also set equal to naf). Then a block follows for each molecule type, started by the molecule name, then three columns of data, \omega, \Re e[\hat{c}_{\vec{P}\vec{P}}(\omega)], \Im m[\hat{c}_{\vec{P}\vec{P}}(\omega)], where \hat{c} is the discrete FT of c(t).

Possible uses of the output file are: to analyze it to obtain the decay time of autocorrelations, which can be used to define an efficient sampling of the simulation; to compare it with the analogous microscopic one obtained for individual molecules (see Autocorrelation functions of individual charge dipole moments in DL_MESO_DPD).

Background Information

The base code for this module is DL_MESO_DPD, the Dissipative Particle Dynamics code from the mesoscopic simulation package DL_MESO, developed by M. Seaton at Daresbury Laboratory. This open source code is available from STFC under both academic (free) and commercial (paid) licenses. The module is to be used with DL_MESO in its most recently released version, version 2.7 (dating December 2018).

A variant of this module for use with a previous version of DL_MESO, version 2.6 (dating November 2015), can be found in the old-v2.6 directory [3].

The present module also requires the library FFTW (version 3.x) to be installed.

Testing

The present module gen_dipoleaf.f90 is compiled with the available Fortran 2003 compiler, e.g.:

gfortran -o gen_dipoleaf.exe gen_dipoleaf.f90 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lfftw3 -lm

where -I indicates the location of the FFTW include file fftw3.f03 and -L points to the directory containing the FFTW library files. The above command gives the most likely locations for these files, although these may need to be adjusted if FFTW has been installed somewhere else on your machine.

The executable must be in the same directory as the HISTORY file to be analyzed. The user is asked to provide the maximum number of snapshots to be used for the AFs (naf) and a switch for the Fourier transform: 1 for yes, 0 (or any other integer) for no.

To input these parameters one can either enter them from the keyboard or write them into a text file (say, input.txt), one per line in the right order, and run the program in this way:

gen_dipoleaf.exe < input.txt

Test: water in oil

As a test, we suggest considering a fluid made of harmonically bonded dimers (+q,-q). Appropriately fixing the partial charge q and the Bjerrum length l_B, this system mimics water in an oil background as far as the dielectric properties are concerned. For more details about this model, please see the page Test case: a dimer solvent.

Run DL_MESO_DPD using the following CONTROL file:

DL_MESO charged harmonic dimers with dpd repulsion

volume 64.0
temperature 1.0
cutoff 1.0

timestep 0.01
steps 70000
equilibration steps 20000
traj 20000 10
stats every 100
stack size 100
print every 100
job time 7200.0
close time 10.0

ensemble nvt mdvv

ewald sum 1.0 5 5 5
bjerrum 42.0
smear gauss
smear length 0.5 equal

finish

and the FIELD file:

DL_MESO charged harmonic dimers with dpd repulsion

SPECIES 2
solp  1.0   0.46  0
solm  1.0  -0.46  0

MOLECULES 1
DIMER
nummols 96
beads 2
solp  0.0 0.0 0.0
solm  0.1 0.0 0.0
bonds 1
harm 1 2 5.0 0.0

finish

INTERACTIONS 3
solp  solp  dpd 25.0 1.0 4.5
solm  solm  dpd 25.0 1.0 4.5
solp  solm  dpd 25.0 1.0 4.5

CLOSE

Analyzing the HISTORY file with gen_dipoleaf.exe choosing naf=100, i.e., using this input.txt:

100
1

this output is printed to the standard output:

 nchist:            0          96
 Number of time steps in autocorrelation profile? 
100
 switch for FFT computation? (1=yes, 0 or any other integer=no)
1

The first line shows the histogram of cluster sizes: in this case, it correctly gives 96 molecules of two beads. Since internally the module checks that each molecule is a connected cluster [1], this line should always give a histogram with the molecule sizes (shown up to the maximum number of beads per molecule).

The DIPAFDAT file is (only the first fifteen lines are shown):

DL_MESO charged harmonic dimers with dpd repulsion                              
      5001       100


DIMER   
  0.000000E+00  1.462829E+01  1.000000E+00
  1.000000E-01  1.403865E+01  9.596923E-01
  2.000000E-01  1.258271E+01  8.601627E-01
  3.000000E-01  1.074853E+01  7.347772E-01
  4.000000E-01  8.870221E+00  6.063746E-01
  5.000000E-01  7.113151E+00  4.862601E-01
  6.000000E-01  5.559272E+00  3.800358E-01
  7.000000E-01  4.250179E+00  2.905452E-01
  8.000000E-01  3.187677E+00  2.179119E-01
  9.000000E-01  2.349055E+00  1.605831E-01

and the DIPAFFFT file is (only the first fifteen lines are shown):

DL_MESO charged harmonic dimers with dpd repulsion                              
      5001       100


DIMER   
  0.000000E+00  5.757016E+00  0.000000E+00
  6.283185E-01  5.682940E+00 -1.682430E+00
  1.256637E+00  4.084017E+00 -2.585684E+00
  1.884956E+00  3.921155E+00 -3.116275E+00
  2.513274E+00  3.381181E+00 -3.800208E+00
  3.141593E+00  2.320091E+00 -3.074025E+00
  3.769911E+00  1.751324E+00 -3.126105E+00
  4.398230E+00  1.443640E+00 -2.653086E+00
  5.026548E+00  1.105522E+00 -2.423820E+00
  5.654867E+00  9.472693E-01 -2.056408E+00

Below we show a plot of the normalized AF \frac {\langle \vec{P}(0)\vec{P}(t)\rangle}{\langle\vec{P}(0)\vec{P}(0)\rangle} (obtained using the first and third columns of DIPAFDAT)

../../../../_images/af-dimers.jpg

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PROGRAM gen_dipoleaf
!*************************************************************************************
! module to compute autocorrelation functions of charge dipole moments in DL_MESO_DPD
!
! authors: m. a. seaton and s. chiacchiera, March 2017 (amended August 2017, January
! 2021)
!*************************************************************************************         
      USE, INTRINSIC :: iso_c_binding
      IMPLICIT none
      INTEGER, PARAMETER :: dp = SELECTED_REAL_KIND (15, 307)
      INTEGER, PARAMETER :: li = SELECTED_INT_KIND (12)
      INTEGER, PARAMETER :: ntraj=10
      INTEGER, PARAMETER :: endversion = 1
      REAL(KIND=dp), PARAMETER :: pi=3.141592653589793_dp
      
      CHARACTER(80) :: text
      CHARACTER(8), ALLOCATABLE :: namspe (:), nammol (:)

      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: ltp (:), ltm (:), mole (:), bndtbl (:,:)
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: nbdmol (:), readint (:)
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: visit (:), from (:)
      INTEGER :: nrtout
      INTEGER :: chain, imol, ioerror, i, numtraj, j, k, l, nmoldef, ibond, nbdmolmx
      INTEGER :: nspe, nbeads, nusyst, nmbeads, nsyst, numbond, global, species, molecule
      INTEGER :: nummol, lfrzn, rnmol, keytrj, srfx, srfy, srfz
      INTEGER :: naf, nsamp, n1
      INTEGER :: endver, Dlen, nstep, framesize, lend, leni
      INTEGER(KIND=li) :: filesize, mypos, currentpos, lend_li, leni_li, framesizeli, numbeadsli

      REAL(KIND=dp), ALLOCATABLE :: xxx (:), yyy (:), zzz (:), readdata (:)
      REAL(KIND=dp), ALLOCATABLE :: nmol (:), chg (:), molchg (:)
      REAL(KIND=dp), ALLOCATABLE :: dipx_box (:), dipy_box (:), dipz_box (:)
      REAL(KIND=dp), ALLOCATABLE :: dipdata (:,:,:), dipdata_box (:,:), corrdata (:)
      REAL(KIND=dp) :: dimx, dimy, dimz, shrdx, shrdy, shrdz
      REAL(KIND=dp) :: amass, rcii
      REAL(KIND=dp) :: time
      REAL(KIND=dp) :: domega, dt, time0
      REAL(KIND=dp) :: dx0, dy0, dz0 

      INTEGER :: nftpts
      COMPLEX(C_DOUBLE_COMPLEX), ALLOCATABLE :: fftdata (:)
      
      LOGICAL :: eof, lfft, swapend, bigend
      
!     determine number of bytes for selected double precision and integer kinds
!     (the default SELECTED_REAL_KIND (15, 307) should return 8 bytes)

      lend = STORAGE_SIZE (1.0_dp) / 8
      leni = BIT_SIZE (1) / 8
      lend_li = INT (lend, KIND=li)
      leni_li = INT (leni, KIND=li)

!     check endianness of machine

      bigend = (IACHAR(TRANSFER(1,"a"))==0)

!     determine if HISTORY file exists, which endianness to use,
!     if type of real is correct

      INQUIRE (file = 'HISTORY', EXIST = eof)
      IF (.NOT. eof) THEN
        PRINT *, "ERROR: cannot find HISTORY file"
        STOP
      END IF

      OPEN (ntraj, file = 'HISTORY', access = 'stream', form = 'unformatted', status = 'unknown')

      swapend = .false.
      READ (ntraj) endver, Dlen

      IF (endver/=endversion) THEN
        swapend = .true.
        CLOSE (ntraj)
        IF (bigend) THEN
          OPEN (ntraj, file = 'HISTORY', access = 'stream', form = 'unformatted', status = 'unknown', convert = 'little_endian')
        ELSE
          OPEN (ntraj, file = 'HISTORY', access = 'stream', form = 'unformatted', status = 'unknown', convert = 'big_endian')
        END IF
        READ (ntraj) endver, Dlen
        IF (endver/=endversion) THEN
          PRINT *, "ERROR: corrupted HISTORY file or created with incorrect version of DL_MESO"
          STOP
        END IF
      END IF

      IF (Dlen/=lend) THEN
        PRINT *, "ERROR: incorrect type of real number used in HISTORY file"
        PRINT *, "       recompile gen_dipoleaf.f90 with reals of ", Dlen, " bytes"
        STOP
      END IF

!     read file size, number of frames and timestep numbers

      READ (ntraj) filesize, numtraj, nstep

      ! Read where the number of beads, molecules and bonds are determined
      ! Arrays are filled with names of particles and molecules

      READ (ntraj) text

      READ (ntraj) nspe, nmoldef, nusyst, nsyst, numbond, keytrj, srfx, srfy, srfz

      IF (numbond==0) THEN
        PRINT *, 'ERROR: no molecules in trajectory data!'
        STOP
      END IF
      
      IF (srfx>1 .OR. srfy>1 .OR. srfz>1) THEN
         WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: Hard walls, electrostatics not implemented in DL_MESO_DPD yet!"
         STOP
      END IF

      IF (srfx==1 .OR. srfy==1 .OR. srfz==1) THEN
         WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: Systems under shear not yet implemented!"
         STOP
      END IF

      framesize = (keytrj+1) * 3
      ALLOCATE (readint (1:nsyst), readdata (1:framesize))

!     get number of beads to be tracked when reading trajectory file (molecular beads)
      nmbeads = nsyst - nusyst

      ALLOCATE (namspe (nspe), nammol (nmoldef))
      ALLOCATE (xxx (1:nmbeads), yyy (1:nmbeads), zzz (1:nmbeads))
      ALLOCATE (ltp (1:nmbeads), ltm (1:nmbeads), mole (1:nmbeads))
      ALLOCATE (nmol (1:nmoldef), nbdmol (1:nmoldef))
      ALLOCATE (chg (nspe))
      ALLOCATE (bndtbl (numbond, 2))
      ALLOCATE (visit (nmbeads), from (nmbeads)) 

      DO i = 1, nspe
        READ (ntraj) namspe (i), amass, rcii, chg (i), lfrzn
      END DO

      DO i = 1, nmoldef
        READ (ntraj) nammol (i)
      END DO

      ! reading of bead species and molecule types

      nummol = 0 !counter for number of molecules
      ibond = 0  !counter for bonds

      DO i = 1, nsyst
        READ (ntraj) global, species, molecule, chain
        IF (global>nusyst .AND. global<=nsyst) THEN
          ltp (global-nusyst) = species
          ltm (global-nusyst) = molecule
          mole (global-nusyst) = chain
          nummol = MAX (nummol, chain)
        END IF
      END DO

      ! reading of bond tables

      IF (numbond>0) THEN
        DO i = 1, numbond
          READ (ntraj) bndtbl (i, 1), bndtbl (i, 2)
        END DO
      END IF

      bndtbl = bndtbl - nusyst

!     reached end of header: find current position in file

      INQUIRE (unit=ntraj, POS=currentpos)

      ! find timestep size from times in first two frames

      framesizeli = INT (framesize, KIND=li)
      numbeadsli = INT (nsyst, KIND=li)

      READ (ntraj, IOSTAT=ioerror, POS=currentpos) time0
      mypos = currentpos + (numbeadsli + 1_li) * leni_li + (framesizeli * numbeadsli + 7_li) * lend_li
      READ (ntraj, IOSTAT=ioerror, POS=mypos) time

      dt = time - time0

      ! determine numbers of molecules and beads per molecule type
      nmol = 0.0_dp
      nbdmol = 0
      chain = 0
      imol = 0 !necessary to avoid out of bounds
         
      DO i = 1, nmbeads
         IF (mole (i) /= chain) THEN
            chain = mole (i)
            imol = ltm (i)
            nmol (imol) = nmol (imol) + 1.0_dp
         END IF
         IF (imol > 0) nbdmol (imol) = nbdmol (imol) + 1
      END DO
                  
      DO i = 1, nmoldef
         rnmol = NINT (nmol (i))
         IF (rnmol>0) THEN
            nbdmol (i) = nbdmol (i) / rnmol
         END IF
      END DO

      nbdmolmx = MAXVAL (nbdmol (1:nmoldef))

      ! obtain connectivity information (needed only once)
      CALL connect (nmbeads, numbond, bndtbl, nbdmolmx, visit, from)
      
      !Checking for charge neutrality of all molecules
      ALLOCATE (molchg (nummol))

      molchg (:) = 0._dp

      DO i = 1, nmbeads
         imol = mole (i)
         molchg (imol) = molchg (imol) + chg (ltp (i))
      END DO

      DO i = 1, nummol
         IF (ABS (molchg (i)) > 1.0e-16_dp) THEN
            WRITE (*,*) "molecule number",i," is not neutral! (The dipole moment is frame-dependent)"
            WRITE (*,*) "its charge is=", molchg (i)
            WRITE (*,*) "its type is=", nammol (i)
            STOP
         ENDIF
      END DO

      CALL check_molecules !checks that beads are labelled as expected

      ! Get the maximum number of time steps for autocorrelation
      WRITE (*,*) "Number of time steps in autocorrelation profile? "
      READ (*,*) naf
      IF (naf<1 .OR. naf>numtraj) naf = numtraj      

      ! Get the switch for FFT computation
      WRITE (*,*) "switch for FFT computation? (1=yes, 0 or any other integer=no)"
      READ (*,*) n1
      lfft = (n1 == 1)
      
      !reading trajectories and computing charge dipole moments
      ALLOCATE (dipdata (4, nmoldef, numtraj))
      ALLOCATE (dipx_box (nmoldef), dipy_box (nmoldef), dipz_box (nmoldef))
      
      eof = .false.

      DO k = 1, numtraj

        mypos = currentpos + INT (k-1, KIND=li) * ((numbeadsli + 1_li) * leni_li + (framesizeli * numbeadsli + 7_li) * lend_li)
        READ (ntraj, POS = mypos, IOSTAT=ioerror) time, nbeads, dimx, dimy, dimz, shrdx, shrdy, shrdz

        IF (ioerror/=0) THEN
          eof = .true.
          IF (k==1) THEN
            PRINT *, 'ERROR: cannot find trajectory data in HISTORY files'
            STOP
          END IF
          EXIT
        END IF

        READ (ntraj) readint (1:nsyst)
        DO i = 1, nsyst
          global = readint (i)
          READ (ntraj) readdata (1:framesize)
          IF (global>nusyst .AND. global<=nsyst) THEN
            xxx (global-nusyst) = readdata (1)
            yyy (global-nusyst) = readdata (2)
            zzz (global-nusyst) = readdata (3)
          END IF
        END DO

        CALL compute_charge_dipoles (dipx_box, dipy_box, dipz_box)

         ! the dipole components are stored for all the snapshots 
        DO j = 1, nmoldef
          dipdata (1, j, k) = dipx_box (j)
          dipdata (2, j, k) = dipy_box (j)
          dipdata (3, j, k) = dipz_box (j)
          dipdata (4, j, k) = time
        END DO

      END DO ! end of loop over trajectories

      IF (k <= numtraj) THEN
         WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: problem with the number of snapshots!" 
         STOP
      END IF

      ! Close the trajectory file
      CLOSE (ntraj)

      nsamp = numtraj - naf + 1
      
      ALLOCATE (corrdata (naf))

      ! define FFT size if needed
      IF (lfft) THEN
         nftpts = naf ! modify here to change the size of the DFT
         domega = 2.0_dp * pi / (dt * REAL(nftpts, KIND=dp))
         ALLOCATE (fftdata (nftpts))
      END IF
         
      ! Open output file, compute the autocorrelation and write it there
      nrtout = ntraj + 1
      
      IF (numtraj>0) THEN
         
         OPEN (nrtout, file='DIPAFDAT', status='replace')
         WRITE (nrtout, '(a80)') text
         WRITE (nrtout, '(2i10)') numtraj,naf
         WRITE (nrtout, '(/)')

         ! Open the FT otuput file if needed
         IF (lfft) THEN
            OPEN (nrtout+1, file='DIPAFFFT', status='replace')
            WRITE (nrtout+1, '(a80)') text
            WRITE (nrtout+1, '(2i10)') numtraj,nftpts
            WRITE (nrtout+1, '(/)')
         END IF
         
         DO j = 1, nmoldef
            corrdata = 0.0_dp
            WRITE (nrtout,'(a8)') nammol (j)
            IF (lfft) WRITE (nrtout+1,'(a8)') nammol (j)
            DO i = 1, nsamp
               dx0 = dipdata (1, j, i)
               dy0 = dipdata (2, j, i)
               dz0 = dipdata (3, j, i)
               DO l = 1, naf
                  corrdata (l) = corrdata (l) + dipdata (1, j, i+l-1) * dx0 + dipdata (2, j, i+l-1) * dy0 &
                       + dipdata (3, j, i+l-1) * dz0
               END DO
            END DO
            corrdata = corrdata / REAL (nsamp, KIND=dp)
            DO i = 1, naf
               WRITE (nrtout, '(1p,3e14.6)') REAL (i-1, KIND=dp)*dt, corrdata (i), corrdata (i)/corrdata(1)
            END DO
            WRITE (nrtout, '(/)')
            IF (lfft) THEN
               fftdata (:) = corrdata (:)/ corrdata (1) ! adapt here if nftpts differs from naf
               CALL fft (fftdata)
               DO i = 1, nftpts
                  WRITE (nrtout+1, '(1p,3e14.6)') REAL (i-1, KIND=dp)*domega, fftdata (i)
               END DO
               WRITE (nrtout+1, '(/)')
            END IF
         END DO
         ! Calculation for the total system dipole 
         ALLOCATE (dipdata_box (4, numtraj)) 
         dipdata_box = SUM (dipdata, 2) !sum of dipoles over all molecular species
         corrdata = 0.0_dp
         WRITE (nrtout, '("all species")')
         IF (lfft) WRITE (nrtout+1, '("all species")')
         DO i = 1, nsamp
             dx0 = dipdata_box (1, i)
             dy0 = dipdata_box (2, i)
             dz0 = dipdata_box (3, i)
             DO l = 1, naf
                corrdata (l) = corrdata (l) + dipdata_box (1, i+l-1) * dx0 + dipdata_box (2, i+l-1) * dy0 &
                     + dipdata_box (3, i+l-1) * dz0
                END DO
             END DO
             corrdata = corrdata / REAL (nsamp, KIND=dp)
             DO i = 1, naf
                WRITE (nrtout, '(1p,3e14.6)') REAL (i-1, KIND=dp)*dt, corrdata (i), corrdata (i)/corrdata(1)
             END DO
             WRITE (nrtout, '(/)')
             IF (lfft) THEN
                fftdata (:) = corrdata (:)/ corrdata (1) ! adapt here if nftpts differs from naf
                call fft (fftdata)
                DO i = 1, nftpts
                   WRITE (nrtout+1, '(1p,3e14.6)') REAL (i-1, KIND=dp)*domega, fftdata (i)
                END DO
                WRITE (nrtout+1, '(/)')
             END IF
         DEALLOCATE (dipdata_box)
      END IF
    
      ! Close the output files
      CLOSE (nrtout)
      IF (lfft) CLOSE (nrtout+1)
      
      DEALLOCATE (readint, readdata)
      DEALLOCATE (namspe, nammol)
      DEALLOCATE (xxx, yyy, zzz)
      DEALLOCATE (ltp, ltm, mole)
      DEALLOCATE (nmol, nbdmol)
      DEALLOCATE (chg, molchg)
      DEALLOCATE (dipx_box, dipy_box, dipz_box)
      DEALLOCATE (bndtbl)
      DEALLOCATE (visit, from)
      DEALLOCATE (dipdata, corrdata)
      IF (lfft) DEALLOCATE (fftdata) 
             
    CONTAINS

      SUBROUTINE check_molecules
!*************************************************************************************
! subroutine to check molecular content and labelling
!
! authors: s. chiacchiera, February 2017 
!*************************************************************************************         
        IMPLICIT NONE
        INTEGER i, j, k, tm, tp, imol, im, ibd
        INTEGER mxmolsize
        INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: molbeads (:,:)
        
        mxmolsize = 0
        DO i = 1, nmoldef
           mxmolsize = MAX (nbdmol(i), mxmolsize)
        END DO
        ALLOCATE (molbeads (nmoldef, mxmolsize))
        molbeads (:,:) = 0 
        
        imol = 0
        ibd = 0
        DO i = 1, nmoldef
           DO j = 1, NINT (nmol(i))
              imol = imol +1
              DO k = 1, nbdmol(i)
                 ibd = ibd +1
                 tm = ltm (ibd)
                 tp = ltp (ibd)
                 im = mole (ibd)
                 IF (j==1) THEN
                    molbeads (i, k) = tp
                 ELSE
                    IF (molbeads (i, k) /= tp) THEN
                       WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: Problem with molecular content!"
                       STOP   
                    ENDIF
                 ENDIF
                 IF (tm/=i.OR.im/=imol)THEN
                    WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: Problem with molecules labels!"
                    STOP
                 ENDIF
              END DO
           END DO
        END DO
        IF (imol/=nummol) THEN 
           WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: imol and nummol differ!"
           STOP
        ENDIF
        DEALLOCATE (molbeads)
        RETURN
      END SUBROUTINE check_molecules

      SUBROUTINE compute_charge_dipoles (dipx_box, dipy_box, dipz_box)
!*************************************************************************************
! subroutine to compute charge dipole moments
!
! authors: m. a. seaton and s. chiacchiera, February 2017
!
! input: xxx, yyy, zzz (at a given time step) and chg 
! input: visit and from (obtained using connect) 
! output: the x,y,z components of the total dipole, for each molecule type (at a given
!         time step)
!
! (NB: this is a slightly modified version, with fewer outputs)
!*************************************************************************************         
        IMPLICIT NONE
        INTEGER i, j, k, tm, tp, imol, ibd, count, ipr
        REAL(KIND=dp), DIMENSION(nmoldef) :: dipx_box, dipy_box, dipz_box
        REAL(KIND=dp) :: x, y, z, dx, dy, dz, xpre, ypre, zpre
        REAL(KIND=dp) :: dipx, dipy, dipz
        REAL(KIND=dp), DIMENSION(nmbeads) :: xabs, yabs, zabs
        
        dipx_box (:) = 0._dp
        dipy_box (:) = 0._dp
        dipz_box (:) = 0._dp

        imol = 0
        count = 0 
        ! xabs = 0._dp ! just to keep it clean
        ! yabs = 0._dp
        ! zabs = 0._dp
        
        DO i = 1, nmoldef
           tm = i 
           DO j = 1, NINT (nmol(i))
              imol = imol + 1

              dipx = 0._dp ! dipole of a SINGLE molecule
              dipy = 0._dp
              dipz = 0._dp

              DO k = 1, nbdmol(i)
                 count = count + 1
                 ibd = visit (count)
                 ipr = from (count)
                 
                 IF (ipr /= 0) THEN
                    xpre = xabs (ipr)
                    ypre = yabs (ipr)
                    zpre = zabs (ipr)
                 ELSE
                    IF (k == 1) THEN
                       xpre = 0._dp
                       ypre = 0._dp
                       zpre = 0._dp
                    ELSE
                       WRITE (*,*) "Unconnected molecule!"
                       STOP
                    ENDIF
                 ENDIF

                 tp = ltp (ibd)
                 
                 dx = xxx (ibd) - xpre  
                 dy = yyy (ibd) - ypre  
                 dz = zzz (ibd) - zpre

                 dx = dx - dimx * ANINT (dx/dimx)
                 dy = dy - dimy * ANINT (dy/dimy)
                 dz = dz - dimz * ANINT (dz/dimz)
                 
                 x = xpre + dx
                 y = ypre + dy
                 z = zpre + dz
                 
                 
                 dipx = dipx + x * chg (tp)
                 dipy = dipy + y * chg (tp)
                 dipz = dipz + z * chg (tp)
                 
                 xabs (ibd) = x
                 yabs (ibd) = y
                 zabs (ibd) = z
                 
               END DO

              dipx_box (tm) = dipx_box (tm) + dipx
              dipy_box (tm) = dipy_box (tm) + dipy
              dipz_box (tm) = dipz_box (tm) + dipz
              
           END DO
        END DO

        IF (imol/=nummol) THEN 
           WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: imol and nummol differ!"
           STOP
        ENDIF
        
        RETURN
      END SUBROUTINE compute_charge_dipoles

SUBROUTINE fft (x)
!*************************************************************************************         
! Subroutine to call FFTW (v3) one-dimensional complex DFT.
! Notice that the input array is overwritten with the its Discrete Fourier Transform.
!
! author: s. chiacchiera, August 2017
! amended: m. a. seaton, January 2021
!*************************************************************************************         
  USE, INTRINSIC :: iso_c_binding
  IMPLICIT none
  INCLUDE 'fftw3.f03'
  COMPLEX(C_DOUBLE_COMPLEX), INTENT(INOUT) :: x (:)
  INTEGER :: n
  TYPE(C_PTR) :: plan
  
      n = SIZE (x)

      plan = fftw_plan_dft_1d (n, x, x, FFTW_FORWARD, FFTW_ESTIMATE)
      CALL fftw_execute_dft (plan, x, x)
      CALL fftw_destroy_plan (plan)
      
      RETURN
      
END SUBROUTINE fft
      
End PROGRAM gen_dipoleaf

SUBROUTINE connect (nbeads, nbonds, bndtbl, mxmolsize, visit, from)
!**********************************************************************
!  Analyzes all the bonds (bndtbl) to obtain a schedule (visit, from) 
!  to visit the beads so that each cluster is visited along a connected
!  path. "visit" gives the order to include beads, "from" gives the bead 
!  to attach them to.
!  (Note: vocabulary from infection propagation used to move along
!  clusters)
!
!  author: s. chiacchiera, February 2017
!  amended: m. a. seaton, January 2021
!**********************************************************************
  IMPLICIT none
      INTEGER, INTENT (IN) :: bndtbl (nbonds,2)
      INTEGER, INTENT (IN) :: nbeads, nbonds
      INTEGER, INTENT (IN) :: mxmolsize
      INTEGER :: ic, i, k, nn, nclu, nper, lab, ref, count
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: firstnn (:), lastnn (:), deg (:)
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: labnn (:)
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: state (:)
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: perlab (:), perref (:)
      INTEGER, ALLOCATABLE :: nchist (:)
      INTEGER, INTENT (OUT) :: visit (nbeads), from (nbeads)
      
      ALLOCATE (firstnn (nbeads), lastnn (nbeads), deg (nbeads), labnn (2*nbonds))
      ALLOCATE (state (nbeads))
      ALLOCATE (perlab (nbeads), perref (nbeads))
      ALLOCATE (nchist (mxmolsize)) 
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      CALL organize (nbeads, nbonds, labnn, firstnn, lastnn, deg)
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      state (:) = 0
      nchist (:) = 0
      visit (:) = 0
      from (:) = 0
      count = 0
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      ic = 0 
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      DO WHILE (ic < nbeads) ! ic = label of bead used to "grow" a cluster
         ic = ic + 1
         IF( state (ic) /= 0) THEN
            WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: labels are not as expected!"
            STOP
         END IF
         nclu = 1 
         count = count + 1
         visit (ic) = ic 
         IF (deg (ic) == 0) THEN
            state (ic) = -1
            IF (nclu <= mxmolsize) nchist (nclu) = nchist (nclu) +1
            CYCLE
         END IF
         state (ic) = 1          ! ic is "infected"

         ! nearest neighbours of ic are marked as "goint to be infected" -> a.k.a. perimeter  
         nper = 0 
         perlab (:) = 0
         perref (:) = 0         
         DO k = firstnn (ic), lastnn (ic)
            nn = labnn (k)
            IF( state (nn) /= 0) THEN
               WRITE (*,*) "ERROR: labels are not as expected!"
               STOP
            END IF
            nper = nper + 1
            perlab (nper) = nn !new bead in perimeter
            perref (nper) = ic  !its reference bead (origin of the link)
            state (nn) = 2
         END DO
         state (ic) = 3 ! ic is "dead"
         
         DO WHILE (nper > 0)
            i = 1 ! pick a bead of "perimeter" to be analyzed
            lab = perlab (i)
            ref = perref (i)            
            perlab (i) = perlab (nper)            
            perref (i) = perref (nper)                        
            nper = nper - 1 
            IF (state (lab) == 3) THEN
               CYCLE
            END IF
            state (lab) = 1 ! "lab" is added to the cluster
            nclu = nclu + 1
            count = count + 1
            visit (count) = lab
            from (count) = ref
            
            DO k = firstnn (lab), lastnn (lab)  ! check nn of newly added 
               nn = labnn (k)
               IF( (state (nn) == 2) .OR. (state (nn) == 3)) CYCLE
               nper = nper + 1
               perlab (nper) = nn !new bead in perimeter
               perref (nper) = lab  !its reference bead (origin of the link)
               state (nn) = 2
            END DO
            state (lab) = 3            
           
         END DO
         nchist (nclu) = nchist (nclu) +1
         ic = ic + nclu - 1 ! prepare ic for the next cluster
      END DO
      WRITE (*,*) "nchist: ", nchist
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------      
      DEALLOCATE (firstnn, lastnn, deg, labnn)
      DEALLOCATE (state)
      DEALLOCATE (perlab, perref)
      DEALLOCATE (nchist) 
      RETURN
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      CONTAINS
      !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
        SUBROUTINE organize (N, NL, labnn, firstnn, lastnn, deg)
        !**********************************************************************
        ! Analyzes the bonds (bndtbl) to obtain the degree (=number of bonds)
        ! of each bead, and the nearest neighbours list.
        ! N in the number of beads (vertices) and NL of bonds (links). 
        !
        ! author: s. chiacchiera, February 2017 
        !**********************************************************************
        IMPLICIT none
      INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: N, NL
      INTEGER :: i,l,count_lab, i1,i2
      INTEGER, DIMENSION (N), INTENT(OUT) :: deg
      INTEGER, DIMENSION (N), INTENT(OUT) :: firstnn, lastnn
      INTEGER, DIMENSION (2*NL), intent(OUT) :: labnn
      
      deg(:)=0
      firstnn(:)=0
      lastnn(:)=0
      labnn(:)=0 

      count_lab=0

      DO i=1,N
         DO l=1,NL
            IF(bndtbl(l,1).EQ.i)THEN  
               deg(i)=deg(i)+1
               count_lab=count_lab+1
               labnn(count_lab)=bndtbl(l,2)
            ENDIF
            IF(bndtbl(l,2).EQ.i)THEN 
               deg(i)=deg(i)+1
               count_lab=count_lab+1
               labnn(count_lab)=bndtbl(l,1)
            ENDIF
         END DO
      END DO
      
      i1=1
      i2=0
      DO i=1,N
         IF (deg (i)==0) CYCLE
         firstnn(i)=i1
         i2=i1+deg(i)-1
         lastnn(i)=i2
         i1=i2+1
      END DO
      
      RETURN
      
    END SUBROUTINE organize
    !-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  END SUBROUTINE connect
  
[1](1, 2) Disambiguation on the concept of molecule. In DL_MESO a defined molecule is a set of beads that can be bonded together or not. For the purpose of this module it is required that each molecule is a connected cluster (via stretching bonds). In fact, this - together with the reasonable assumption that each stretching bond cannot be stretched to more than half the system linear size - allows us to univocally define the charge dipole moment of each molecule.
[2]M. P. Allen and D. J. Tildesley, “Computer simulation of liquids”, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1987).
[3]A small change to specifying charge smearing schemes and lengths in CONTROL files has been made since version 2.6: the old-v2.6 folder includes the CONTROL file for the test shown here that will work with this version of DL_MESO.