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faranak1991 asked this question in Q&A
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Not necessarily - if you're using an OpenFF force field, it's been trained on a 9 A cutoff so that's the recommended use. Using a longer cutoff is sometimes desirable, but my understanding is that it's better to stick with what the force field prescribes because that probably produces more accurate physical properties, etc. Also, in case this is what you happened to be doing, you probably don't want to keep the cutoff at half the box length, especially with larger boxes, because the cutoff error becomes vanishingly small but the extra computational cost increases significantly.

If you wanted to modify the force field and use a different cutoff, and I'm not recommending you do, you can do …

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