Dear Espresso developers,
Today, we noticed an unexpected behaviour of Espresso, that I would consider a bug, but it might also be a feature. Before submitting a bug report, I want to ask your opinion.
In brief: if two particles connected by a bond but they are found in different periodic copies of the simulation box, then Espresso runs without any error or warning. Since particles are internally represented in unfolded coordinates, I would expect to get a "bond broken" error if the (unfolded) distance is greater than box_l/2. Apparently, minimum image convention is used also in the calculation of bond distances, which makes no sense in the unfolded coordinates.
If we agree that such behaviour is undesired, I will submit a bug report and a minimal working example.
With regards,
Peter
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Dr. Peter Košovan
Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry
Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Katedra fyzikální a makromolekulární chemie
Přírodovědecká fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze
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