# polyhedral-template-matching
Polyhedral Template Matching algorithm for analysis of molecular dynamics simulation data

The method is now included in OVITO, LAMMPS, and ASAP.

OVITO PTM documentation: https://ovito.org/docs/current/reference/pipelines/modifiers/polyhedral_template_matching.html

LAMMPS PTM documentation: https://docs.lammps.org/compute_ptm_atom.html

ASAP PTM documentation: http://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/asap/Local%20crystalline%20order



If you use PTM in a publication, please reference:

Peter Mahler Larsen and Søren Schmidt and Jakob Schiøtz
Robust structural identification via polyhedral template matching
Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 24 (2016) 055007

Article available at:
http://stacks.iop.org/0965-0393/24/i=5/a=055007

Preprint available at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05143

