[WIP]Tutorial for pair potential implementation

.travis.yml

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     # Run unit tests and doc tests in debug mode
     - cargo test -p lumol-core
     - cargo test -p lumol-input
+    # Check if tutorials compile
+    - cd
     # Check that benchmarks still compile
     - cargo bench --no-run
+    # Check if tutorials compile
+    - ./scripts/ci/compile-tutorials.py
     # Misc style checking
     - ./scripts/ci/check-whitespaces.py
     # Generate and check doc

Cargo.toml

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 	"src/core",
     "src/input"
 ]
+exclude = ["tutorials"]
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "lumol"

doc/src/SUMMARY.md

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     - [Logging configuration](input/log.md)
 
 - [Advanced tutorials]()
-    - [Adding potentials]()
+    - [Adding potentials](advanced/custom_potential/intro.md)
+        - [Part I: Separate package](advanced/custom_potential/external.md)
+        - [Part II: Lumol core](advanced/custom_potential/core.md)
     - [Adding outputs]()
     - [Extending Molecular dynamics]()
     - [Extending Monte Carlo]()

doc/src/advanced/custom_potential/core.md

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+# Part II: Adding the potential to lumol core

doc/src/advanced/custom_potential/external.md

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+# Part I: Implementation of the logic in a separate package
+
+We start by creating a new package using `cargo`:
+
+```
+cargo new lumol_tutorial_potential
+cd lumol_tutorial_potential
+```
+
+Open `Cargo.toml` and add the lines
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+lumol = {git = "https://github.com/lumol-org/lumol"}
+```
+
+to add `Lumol` as a dependency to the package.
+To test if everything works, open the `lib.rs` file in `src` and add
+```rust
+extern crate lumol;
+```
+in the first line.
+
+Run `cargo build` or `cargo test` to check if errors occur.
+
+## Defining the struct
+
+For the first part of the tutorial, the complete code will be written into the `lib.rs` file.
+
+The energy function of the Mie potential reads
+
+$u(x) = \frac{n}{n-m} \left(\frac{n}{m}\right)^{m/(n-m)}\epsilon \left[ \left( \frac{\sigma}{x}\right)^n - \left( \frac{\sigma}{x}\right)^m \right]$
+
+where $x$ denotes the distance between two interaction sites $i, j$, with $x = x_{ij} = | \mathbf{r}_j - \mathbf{r}_i |$. The parameters of the potential are
+
+- $n, m$ the repulsive and attractive exponents, respectively,
+- $\epsilon$ the energetic paramater,
+- $\sigma$ the particle diameter or structural parameter.
+
+We start by defining the `struct` for our potential. Add the following lines to `lib.rs`:
+
+```rust
+extern crate lumol;
+use lumol::energy::{Potential, PairPotential};
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+pub struct Mie {
+    /// Distance constant
+    sigma: f64,
+    /// Energy constant
+    epsilon: f64,
+    /// Exponent of repulsive contribution
+    n: f64,
+    /// Exponent of attractive contribution
+    m: f64,
+    /// Energetic prefactor computed from the exponents and epsilon
+    prefactor: f64,
+}
+```
+
+In the first two lines we define our imports from `Lumol`, following with our structure.
+
+Next, we implement a constructor function. That's usefull in this case since we want to compute the prefactor
+of the potential once before we start our simulation.
+
+$\text{prefactor} = \frac{n}{n-m} \left(\frac{n}{m}\right)^{m/(n-m)}\epsilon$
+
+In Rust we typically use `new` for the constructors' name.
+
+```rust
+impl Mie {
+    pub fn new(sigma: f64, epsilon: f64, n: f64, m: f64) -> Mie {
+        if m >= n {
+            panic!("The repulsive exponent n has to be larger than the attractive exponent m")
+        };
+        let prefactor = n / (n - m) * (n / m).powf(m / (n - m)) * epsilon;
+        Mie {
+            sigma: sigma,
+            epsilon: epsilon,
+            n: n,
+            m: m,
+            prefactor: prefactor,
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Our function takes the parameter set as input, computes the prefactor and returns a `Mie` struct. Notice that
+it panics, for `n` smaller than or equal to `m`.
+The next step is to implement the `Potential` trait for `Mie`.
+
+## Implementing `Potential`
+
+Add the following lines below the structs implementation.
+
+```rust
+impl Potential for Mie {
+    fn energy(&self, r: f64) -> f64 {
+        let sigma_r = self.sigma / r;
+        let repulsive = f64::powf(sigma_r, self.n);
+        let attractive = f64::powf(sigma_r, self.m);
+        self.prefactor * (repulsive - attractive)
+    }
+
+    fn force(&self, r: f64) -> f64 {
+        let sigma_r = self.sigma / r;
+        let repulsive = f64::powf(sigma_r, self.n);
+        let attractive = f64::powf(sigma_r, self.m);
+        -self.prefactor * (self.n * repulsive - self.m * attractive) / r
+    }
+}
+```
+
+`energy` is the implementation of the Mie potential equation shown above.
+`force` is the negative derivative of the energy with respect to the distance, `r`.
+To be more precise, the vectorial force can readily be computed by multiplying the
+result of `force` with the connection vector $\vec{r}$.
+
+The next step is to make our `Potential` usable in Lumol's algortihms to compute
+non-bonded energies and forces.
+Therefore, we have to implement the `PairPotential` trait.
+
+## Implementing `PairPotential`
+
+Let's inspect the [documentation of `PairPotential`](http://lumol.org/lumol/latest/lumol/energy/trait.PairPotential.html).
+
+```rust
+pub trait PairPotential: Potential + BoxClonePair {
+    fn tail_energy(&self, cutoff: f64) -> f64;
+    fn tail_virial(&self, cutoff: f64) -> f64;
+
+    fn virial(&self, r: &Vector3D) -> Matrix3 { ... }
+}
+```
+
+First, we can see that `PairPotential` enforces the implementation of `Potential` which is denoted by `pub trait PairPotential: Potential ...` (we ignore `BoxClonePair` for now, as it is automatically implemented for us if we implement `PairPotential` manually).
+That makes sense from a didactive point of view since we said that `PairPotential` is a "specialization" of `Potential`
+and furthermore, we can make use of all functions that we had to implement for `Potential`.
+
+There are three functions in the `PairPotential` trait. The first two functions start with `tail_`.
+These are functions to compute long range or tail corrections.
+Often, we introduce a cutoff distance into our potential beyond which we set the energy to zero.
+Doing so we intoduce an error which we can account for using a tail correction.
+We need two of these corrections, one for the energy, `tail_energy`, and one for the pressure (which uses `tail_virial`
+under the hood). For a beautiful derivation of tail corrections for truncated potentials, [see here](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/Simulations_of_bulk_phases.pdf).
+
+The third function, `virial`, already has its body implemented -- we don't have to write an implementation for
+our potential.
+
+We will omit the derivation of the formulae for tail corrections here but they are computed by solving these equations
+
+energy: $\int_{r_c}^{\infty} u(r) r^2 \mathrm{d}r$
+
+virial: $\int_{r_c}^{\infty} \frac{\partial u(r)}{\partial r} r^3 \mathrm{d}r$
+
+The implementation looks like so
+
+```rust
+impl PairPotential for Mie {
+    fn tail_energy(&self, cutoff: f64) -> f64 {
+        if self.m < 3.0 {
+            return 0.0;
+        };
+        let sigma_rc = self.sigma / cutoff;
+        let n_3 = self.n - 3.0;
+        let m_3 = self.m - 3.0;
+        let repulsive = f64::powf(sigma_rc, n_3);
+        let attractive = f64::powf(sigma_rc, m_3);
+        -self.prefactor * self.sigma.powi(3) * (repulsive / n_3 - attractive / m_3)
+    }
+
+    fn tail_virial(&self, cutoff: f64) -> f64 {
+        if self.m < 3.0 {
+            return 0.0;
+        };
+        let sigma_rc = self.sigma / cutoff;
+        let n_3 = self.n - 3.0;
+        let m_3 = self.m - 3.0;
+        let repulsive = f64::powf(sigma_rc, n_3);
+        let attractive = f64::powf(sigma_rc, m_3);
+        -self.prefactor * self.sigma.powi(3) * (repulsive * self.n / n_3 - attractive * self.m / m_3)
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Note that we cannot correct every kind of energy function.
+In fact, the potential has to be a *short ranged* potential.
+For our Mie potential, both the exponents have to be larger than 3.0 else our potential will be *long ranged* and
+the integral that has to be solved to compute the tail corrections diverges.
+We return zero in that case.
+
+## Running a small simulation using the new potential
+
+That concludes the first part.
+To test your new and shiny potential, you can run a small simulation.
+You'll find a minimal Monte Carlo simulation example in the `lumol/tutorials/lumol_tutorial_potential` directory where you will also find the `src/lib.rs` file we created in this tutorial.
+You can then run the simulation via
+```
+cargo run --release
+```
+
+Fantastic! You implemented a new potential and ran a simulation with it!
+
+If you want to share your implementation with other Lumol users only some small additional steps are neccessary.
+We will talk about them in part II.

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+# Creating your own potential function
+
+In this tutorial we will teach you how to use your own potential function with Lumol.
+This tutorial consists of two parts.
+In the first part, we will implement the logic in a separate project using Lumol as an external library.
+The second part describes the neccessary steps to implement the logic into the core package of Lumol called `lumol-core`.
+
+A potential is a function that describes the energy and force between interaction sites.
+In Lumol we differentiate between two types of potentials: First, there are potential functions that need the global state of the system, *i.e.* all positions, as input. The Ewald summation which is used to compute electrostatic interactions is an example for this kind of potential.
+We call them `GlobalPotential`s.
+And second, we have potentials that take a single geometric parameter as input.
+This geometric parameter can be for example a distance or an angle.
+Typical examples are Van-der-Waals potentials (*e.g.* Lennard-Jones) and potential functions describing covalent bonds (*e.g.* harmonic potential, cosine potential, torsion, *etc.*).
+There are plenty of potentials falling into this category, hence in Lumol we simply call them `Potential`s.
+
+> There are two kind of potentials. A `GlobalPotential` takes the global systems' state as input
+and a `Potential` takes a single scalar value (distance, angle, ...) as input.
+
+In this tutorial we will focus on the implementation of the latter.
+More specific, we will implement a potential to compute van-der-Waals interactions between pairs of particles.
+We will make liberal use of the API documentation of both the Rust standard library as well as the Lumol API.
+Please note that we will point to other references, such as the Rust book, concerning general Rust concepts to keep this tutorial brief.
+If you have questions concerning Rust or Lumol, please don't hesitate to file an issue on [github](https://github.com/lumol-org/lumol/issues) or join the discussion on our [gitter](https://gitter.im/lumol-org/lumol).
+
+The tutorial is structured as follows: First we will have a look at how `Potentials` are represented (what data structures are used) and what functionalities we have to implement. Then we describe how we add those functionalities. We will write a small simulation program that makes use of our newly created potential.
+In the second part we talk about implementing the potential into Lumol's core.
+Rust offers beautiful utilities to add documentation inside the code. We will have a look at the documentation of currently implemented potentials to guide us. We will then add some tests to make sure that our implementation is correct. This concludes the bulk the work, but to make our new potential function accessible to all Lumol users we will also add a parsing function. Doing so, our potential can be conveniently specified from an input file. We conclude the tutorial by adding a short documentation to the user manual.
+
+We have a lot to do. Ready? Let's go.
+
+## Rust prerequisites
+
+We recommend reading these chapters in the rust book.
+
+- [structs](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch05-00-structs.html)
+- [traits](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch10-02-traits.html)
+
+## Representation
+
+As mentioned above, potential functions can be used to model all kinds of interactions between particles such as bonded and non-bonded interactions. In Lumol, `Potential` is a [trait](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch10-02-traits.html). To further distinguish between bonded interactions (bond lengths, angles and dihedrals) and non-bonded interactions, we use another trait (often called marker traits). Your possible options to further specialise a `Potential` are
+
+- [`PairPotential`](http://lumol.org/lumol/latest/lumol/energy/trait.PairPotential.html) for non-bonded two body interactions;
+- [`BondPotential`](http://lumol.org/lumol/latest/lumol/energy/trait.BondPotential.html) for covalent bonds interactions;
+- [`AnglePotential`](http://lumol.org/lumol/latest/lumol/energy/trait.AnglePotential.html) for covalent angles interactions;
+- [`DihedralPotential`](http://lumol.org/lumol/latest/lumol/energy/trait.DihedralPotential.html) for covalent dihedral angles interactions.
+
+In this tutorial, we will implement a potential to describe non-bonded pair interactions, namely the [**Mie potential**](http://www.sklogwiki.org/SklogWiki/index.php/Mie_potential). We will have to implement both the `Potential` as well as the `PairPotential` traits. If we wanted to implement a function that can be used as non-bonded as well as bond-length potential, we'd have to implement `Potential`, `PairPotential` as well as `BondPotential`. "Implementing a trait" means that we will define a [structure](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch05-00-structs.html) (a `struct`) for which we will add functions to satisfy the traits' requirements.
+
+Let's start by having a look at the API documentation for `Potential`: open the [API documentation](http://lumol.org/lumol/latest/lumol/energy/trait.Potential.html).
+
+As you can see from the trait, a `Potential` defines the interface for two functions, `energy` and `force` (we ignore the `Sync + Send` statement for now):
+
+```rust
+pub trait Potential: Sync + Send {
+    fn energy(&self, x: f64) -> f64;
+    fn force(&self, x: f64) -> f64;
+}
+```
+
+`energy` will compute the interaction energy between two sites as a function of `x`. The force is defined as the negative derivative of the energy function with respect to `x`.
+
+Both functions take a single, scalar argument and return a single scalar value. In our case `x` stands for the distance between two interaction sites. Note that only the function definitions -- without a function body -- are specified. We will have to implement these functions for our potential.
+
+Let's start the implementation.

scripts/ci/compile-tutorials.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding=utf-8
+import os
+import subprocess
+import glob
+
+TUTORIALS = glob.glob('{}/tutorials/*'.format(os.curdir))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    for tutorial in TUTORIALS:
+        subprocess.call('Cargo build', shell=True, cwd=tutorial)
+

tutorials/lumol_tutorial_potential/Cargo.toml

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+[package]
+name = "lumol_tutorial_potential"
+version = "0.0.0"
+publish = false
+authors = ["Gernot Bauer <[email protected]>"]
+
+[dependencies]
+lumol = {git = "https://github.com/lumol-org/lumol"}
+lumol-input = {git = "https://github.com/lumol-org/lumol"}

tutorials/lumol_tutorial_potential/data/argon.toml

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+[input]
+version = 1
+
+[[systems]]
+file = "argon.xyz"
+cell = 31.0
+
+[systems.potentials.global]
+cutoff = "14.0 A"
+tail_correction = true
+
+[[simulations]]
+nsteps = 1_00000
+outputs = [
+    {type = "Energy", file = "mie_energy.dat", frequency = 500},
+    {type = "Properties", file = "mie_prp.dat", frequency = 500}
+]
+
+[simulations.propagator]
+type = "MonteCarlo"
+temperature = "217.0 K"
+update_frequency = 500
+
+moves = [
+    {type = "Translate", delta = "10 A", frequency = 500, target_acceptance = 0.5},
+]