"The numerical accuracy of truncated Ewald sums for periodic systems with long-range Coulomb interactions"

Physics – Chemical Physics

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6 pages, 3 figures (Encapsulated PostScript), LaTex

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10.1016/0009-2614(95)00117-M

Ewald summation is widely used to calculate electrostatic interactions in computer simulations of condensed-matter systems. We present an analysis of the errors arising from truncating the infinite real- and Fourier-space lattice sums in the Ewald formulation. We derive an optimal choice for the Fourier-space cutoff given a screening parameter $\eta$. We find that the number of vectors in Fourier space required to achieve a given accuracy scales with $\eta^3$. The proposed method can be used to determine computationally efficient parameters for Ewald sums, to assess the quality of Ewald-sum implementations, and to compare different implementations.

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