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       1             : /* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
       2             :    Copyright (c) 2011-2017 The plumed team
       3             :    (see the PEOPLE file at the root of the distribution for a list of names)
       4             : 
       5             :    See http://www.plumed.org for more information.
       6             : 
       7             :    This file is part of plumed, version 2.
       8             : 
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      10             :    it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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      12             :    (at your option) any later version.
      13             : 
      14             :    plumed is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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      16             :    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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      18             : 
      19             :    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
      20             :    along with plumed.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
      21             : +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ */
      22             : #include "Between.h"
      23             : #include "FunctionShortcut.h"
      24             : #include "FunctionOfScalar.h"
      25             : #include "FunctionOfVector.h"
      26             : #include "FunctionOfMatrix.h"
      27             : #include "core/ActionRegister.h"
      28             : 
      29             : #include <cmath>
      30             : 
      31             : namespace PLMD {
      32             : namespace function {
      33             : 
      34             : //+PLUMEDOC FUNCTION BETWEEN
      35             : /*
      36             : Use a switching function to determine how many of the input variables are within a certain range.
      37             : 
      38             : This action takes one argument, $s$ and evaluates the following function:
      39             : 
      40             : $$
      41             : w(s) = \int_a^b K\left( \frac{x - s}{\sigma} \right) \textrm{d}x
      42             : $$
      43             : 
      44             : In this equation $K$ is a symmetric function that must integrate to one and that is often
      45             : called a [kernel function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(statistics)) and $\sigma$ is a smearing parameter.
      46             : The above function can be used to evaluate whether $s$ is between $a$ and $b$. The advantage of using the function above is that
      47             : the resulting quantity has continuous derivatives. It can thus be used when calculating a collective variable upon which a simulation
      48             : bias will be applied.
      49             : 
      50             : The following example, shows how we can apply the function above on the instantaneous value of the distance between atom 1 and 2.
      51             : The BETWEEN action here is used to determine whether the input distance is between 0.1 and 0.2 nm.
      52             : 
      53             : ```plumed
      54             : d: DISTANCE ATOMS=1,2
      55             : b: BETWEEN ARG=d SWITCH={GAUSSIAN LOWER=0.1 UPPER=0.2 SMEAR=0.5}
      56             : ```
      57             : 
      58             : ## The Kernel function
      59             : 
      60             : The $\sigma$ values in the expressions above is calculated from the parameters $a$, $b$ and $s$ that are provided using the
      61             : `LOWER`, `UPPER` and `SMEAR` parameters respectively using the following function:
      62             : 
      63             : $$
      64             : \sigma = s(b-a)
      65             : $$
      66             : 
      67             : Also note that the Kernel function $K$ that is used in the first example is a Gaussian. The actual integral that is evaluated is thus:
      68             : 
      69             : $$
      70             : w(s) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma} \int_a^b \exp\left( -\frac{(x-s)^2}{2\sigma^2}\right) \textrm{d}x
      71             : $$
      72             : 
      73             : The Gaussian kernel in this expression can be replaced by a triangular Kernel by changing the input to:
      74             : 
      75             : ```plumed
      76             : d: DISTANCE ATOMS=1,2
      77             : b: BETWEEN ARG=d SWITCH={TRIANGULAR LOWER=0.1 UPPER=0.2 SMEAR=0.5}
      78             : ```
      79             : 
      80             : With this input the integral is then evaluated using:
      81             : 
      82             : $$
      83             : w(s) = \frac{1}{2\sigma} \int_a^b 1 - H\left( \frac{x-s}{\sigma} \right) \textrm{d}x
      84             : $$
      85             : 
      86             : where:
      87             : 
      88             : $$
      89             : H(x) = \begin{cases}
      90             : x & \textrm{if} \quad x<1 \\
      91             : 0 & \textrm{otherwise}
      92             : \end{cases}
      93             : $$
      94             : 
      95             : ## Non rank zero arguments
      96             : 
      97             : Instead of passing a single scalar in the input to the `BETWEEN` action you can pass a single vector as shown here:
      98             : 
      99             : ```plumed
     100             : d: DISTANCE ATOMS1=1,2 ATOMS2=3,4 ATOMS3=5,6 ATOMS4=7,8
     101             : b: BETWEEN ARG=d SWITCH={GAUSSIAN LOWER=0.1 UPPER=0.2 SMEAR=0.5}
     102             : ```
     103             : 
     104             : The input to the `BETWEEN` action here is a vector with four elements. The output from the action `b` is similarly
     105             : a vector with four elements. In calculating the elements of this vector PLUMED applies the function described in the previous
     106             : section on each of the distances in turn. The first element of `b` thus tells you if the distance between atoms 1 and 2 is between
     107             : 0.1 and 0.2 nm, the second element tells you if the distance between atoms 3 and 4 is between 0.1 and 0.2 nm and so on.
     108             : 
     109             : You can use the commands in the above example input to evaluate the number of distances that are within the range of interest as follows:
     110             : 
     111             : ```plumed
     112             : d: DISTANCE ATOMS1=1,2 ATOMS2=3,4 ATOMS3=5,6 ATOMS4=7,8
     113             : b: BETWEEN ARG=d SWITCH={GAUSSIAN LOWER=0.1 UPPER=0.2 SMEAR=0.5}
     114             : s: SUM ARG=b PERIODIC=NO
     115             : PRINT ARG=s FILE=colvar
     116             : ```
     117             : 
     118             : The final scalar that is output here is evaluated using the following summation:
     119             : 
     120             : $$
     121             : s = \sum_i \int_a^b \left( \frac{x - d_i}{\sigma} \right) \textrm{d}x
     122             : $$
     123             : 
     124             : where the sum over $i$ here runs over the four distances in the above expression. This scalar tells you the number of distances that are
     125             : between 0.1 and 0.2.
     126             : 
     127             : Notice that you can do something similar with a matrix as input as shown below:
     128             : 
     129             : ```plumed
     130             : d: DISTANCE_MATRIX GROUPA=1-10 GROUPB=11-20
     131             : b: BETWEEN ARG=d SWITCH={GAUSSIAN LOWER=0.1 UPPER=0.2 SMEAR=0.5}
     132             : s: SUM ARG=b PERIODIC=NO
     133             : PRINT ARG=s FILE=colvar
     134             : ```
     135             : 
     136             : This input tells PLUMED to calculate the 100 distances between the atoms in the two input groups. The final value that is printed to the colvar file then
     137             : tells you how many of these distances are between 0.1 and 0.2 nm.
     138             : 
     139             : */
     140             : //+ENDPLUMEDOC
     141             : 
     142             : //+PLUMEDOC FUNCTION BETWEEN_VECTOR
     143             : /*
     144             : Use a switching function to determine how many of the input components are within a certain range
     145             : 
     146             : \par Examples
     147             : 
     148             : */
     149             : //+ENDPLUMEDOC
     150             : 
     151             : //+PLUMEDOC COLVAR BETWEEN_MATRIX
     152             : /*
     153             : Transform all the elements of a matrix using a switching function that is oen when the input value is within a particular range
     154             : 
     155             : \par Examples
     156             : 
     157             : */
     158             : //+ENDPLUMEDOC
     159             : 
     160             : typedef FunctionShortcut<Between> BetweenShortcut;
     161             : PLUMED_REGISTER_ACTION(BetweenShortcut,"BETWEEN")
     162             : typedef FunctionOfScalar<Between> ScalarBetween;
     163             : PLUMED_REGISTER_ACTION(ScalarBetween,"BETWEEN_SCALAR")
     164             : typedef FunctionOfVector<Between> VectorBetween;
     165             : PLUMED_REGISTER_ACTION(VectorBetween,"BETWEEN_VECTOR")
     166             : typedef FunctionOfMatrix<Between> MatrixBetween;
     167             : PLUMED_REGISTER_ACTION(MatrixBetween,"BETWEEN_MATRIX")
     168             : 
     169         215 : void Between::registerKeywords(Keywords& keys) {
     170         215 :   keys.add("compulsory","LOWER","the lower boundary for this particular bin");
     171         215 :   keys.add("compulsory","UPPER","the upper boundary for this particular bin");
     172         215 :   keys.add("compulsory","SMEAR","0.5","the ammount to smear the Gaussian for each value in the distribution");
     173         215 :   keys.add("optional","SWITCH","This keyword is used if you want to employ an alternative to the continuous function defined above. "
     174             :            "The following provides information on the \\ref histogrambead that are available. "
     175             :            "When this keyword is present you no longer need the LOWER, UPPER, SMEAR and KERNEL keywords.");
     176         430 :   keys.setValueDescription("scalar/vector/matrix","a function that is one if the input falls within a particular range and zero otherwise");
     177         215 : }
     178             : 
     179          53 : void Between::read( ActionWithArguments* action ) {
     180          53 :   if( action->getNumberOfArguments()!=1 ) {
     181           0 :     action->error("should only be one argument to between actions");
     182             :   }
     183             : 
     184             :   std::string str_min, str_max, tstr_min, tstr_max;
     185          53 :   bool isPeriodic = action->getPntrToArgument(0)->isPeriodic();
     186          53 :   if( isPeriodic ) {
     187           1 :     action->getPntrToArgument(0)->getDomain( str_min, str_max );
     188             :   }
     189             : 
     190             :   std::string hinput;
     191         106 :   action->parse("SWITCH",hinput);
     192          53 :   if(hinput.length()==0) {
     193             :     std::string low, up, sme;
     194           5 :     action->parse("LOWER",low);
     195           5 :     action->parse("UPPER",up);
     196           5 :     action->parse("SMEAR",sme);
     197          10 :     hinput = "GAUSSIAN LOWER=" + low + " UPPER=" + up + " SMEAR=" + sme;
     198             :   }
     199             :   std::string errors;
     200          53 :   hist.set( hinput, errors );
     201          53 :   if( errors.size()!=0 ) {
     202           0 :     action->error( errors );
     203             :   }
     204          53 :   action->log.printf("  %s \n", hist.description().c_str() );
     205             : 
     206          53 :   if( !isPeriodic ) {
     207             :     hist.isNotPeriodic();
     208             :   } else {
     209             :     double min;
     210           1 :     Tools::convert( str_min, min );
     211             :     double max;
     212           1 :     Tools::convert( str_max, max );
     213           1 :     hist.isPeriodic( min, max );
     214             :   }
     215          53 : }
     216             : 
     217       49226 : void Between::calc( const ActionWithArguments* action, const std::vector<double>& args, std::vector<double>& vals, Matrix<double>& derivatives ) const {
     218             :   plumed_dbg_assert( args.size()==1 );
     219       49226 :   vals[0] = hist.calculate( args[0], derivatives(0,0) );
     220       49226 : }
     221             : 
     222             : }
     223             : }
     224             : 
     225             : 

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