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Multi-scale time-stepping in molecular dynamics

Statistical Mechanics 2017-08-02 v1

Abstract

We introduce a modified molecular dynamics algorithm that allows one to freeze the dynamics of parts of a physical system, and thus concentrate the simulation effort on selected, central degrees of freedom. This freezing, in contrast to other multi-scale methods, introduces no approximations in the thermodynamic behaviour of the non-central variables while conserving the Newtonian dynamics of the region of physical interest.

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@article{arxiv.1703.07990,
  title  = {Multi-scale time-stepping in molecular dynamics},
  author = {A. C. Maggs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07990},
  year   = {2017}
}

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two figures, one table

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