AMDAT: An Open-Source Molecular Dynamics Analysis Toolkit for Supercooled Liquids, Glass-Forming Materials, and Complex Fluids
Abstract
AMDAT (Amorphous Molecular Dynamics Analysis Toolkit) is an open-source C++ toolkit for post-processing molecular dynamics trajectories, focused on high-performance static and dynamic analyses of amorphous, glassy, and polymer materials, including supercooled liquids and complex fluids. In this paper, we describe AMDAT's design for efficient long-timescale analysis via in-memory trajectory handling and exponential time sampling, and we demonstrate representative workflows for widely used observables such as radial distribution functions, structure factors, intermediate scattering functions, and neighbor correlations.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Material Dynamics and Properties
Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions
Polymer crystallization and properties
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 5 February 2026
- Document type
- Preprint