AMDAT: An Open-Source Molecular Dynamics Analysis Toolkit for Supercooled Liquids, Glass-Forming Materials, and Complex Fluids

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Authors: Pierre Kawak, William F. Drayer, Bao Khanh Ma, David S. Simmons
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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

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
5 February 2026
Document type
Preprint