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

Materials Science 2026-02-06 v1 Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics

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.

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@article{arxiv.2602.05865,
  title  = {AMDAT: An Open-Source Molecular Dynamics Analysis Toolkit for Supercooled Liquids, Glass-Forming Materials, and Complex Fluids},
  author = {Pierre Kawak and William F. Drayer and David S. Simmons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05865},
  year   = {2026}
}
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