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This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

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Steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations for the calculation of free energies are well suited for high-throughput molecular simulations on a distributed infrastructure due to the simplicity of the setup and parallel granularity of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Toni Giorgino , Gianni De Fabritiis

This paper introduces a novel approach to solving multi-block nonconvex composite optimization problems through a proximal linearized Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). This method incorporates an Increasing Penalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ganzhao Yuan

Accounting for geometry-induced changes in the electronic distribution in molecular simulation is important for capturing effects such as charge flow, charge anisotropy and polarization. Multipolar force fields have demonstrated their…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Eric D. Boittier , Mike Devereux , Markus Meuwly

The calculation of potential energy surfaces for quantum dynamics can be a time consuming task -- especially when a high level of theory for the electronic structure calculation is required. We propose an adaptive interpolation algorithm…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Markus Kowalewski , Elisabeth Larsson , Alfa Heryudono

Free energy calculations based on atomistic Hamiltonians and sampling are key to a first principles understanding of biomolecular processes, material properties, and macromolecular chemistry. Here, we generalize the Free Energy Perturbation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Martin Reinhardt , Helmut Grubmüller

We push the boundaries of electronic structure-based \textit{ab-initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) beyond 100 million atoms. This scale is otherwise barely reachable with classical force-field methods or novel neural network and machine…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

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Atomistic simulations are employed to demonstrate the existence of a well-defined thermodynamic phase transformation between grain boundary (GB) phases with different atomic structures. The free energy of different interface structures for…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-19 Rodrigo Freitas , Robert E. Rudd , Mark Asta , Timofey Frolov

We propose AEGD, a new algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of non-convex objective functions, based on a dynamically updated energy variable. The method is shown to be unconditionally energy stable, irrespective of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Hailiang Liu , Xuping Tian

We propose a proof of convergence of an adaptive method used in molecular dynamics to compute free energy profiles. Mathematically, it amounts to studying the long-time behavior of a stochastic process which satisfies a non-linear…

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The recently proposed Hamiltonian Adaptive Resolution Scheme (H-AdResS) allows to perform molecular simulations in an open boundary framework. It allows to change on the fly the resolution of specific subset of molecules (usually the…

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Kohn-Sham density functional theory and plane wave basis set based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulation is a powerful tool for studying complex reactions in solutions, such as electron transfer (ET) reactions involving…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Sagarmoy Mandal , Ritama Kar , Bernd Meyer , Nisanth N. Nair

Atomistic modelling of phase transitions, chemical reactions, or other rare events that involve overcoming high free energy barriers usually entails prohibitively long simulation times. Introducing a bias potential as a function of an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Federico Giberti , Bingqing Cheng , Gareth Aneurin Tribello , Michele Ceriotti

Accurate simulation of the non-adiabatic dynamics of molecules in excited electronic states is key to understanding molecular photo-physical processes. Here we present a novel method, based on a semiclassical approximation, that is as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Alexander White , Sergei Tretiak , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Finite temperature calculations, based on ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations, are a powerful tool able to predict material properties that cannot be deduced from ground state calculations. However, the high computational cost…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-24 Alois Castellano , Francois Bottin , Johann Bouchet , Antoine Levitt , Gabriel Stoltz

A new mathematical model for non-equilibrium evaporation/condensation including boiling effect is proposed. A simplified differential-algebraic system of equations is obtained. A code to solve numerically this differential-algebraic system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 B. V. Librovitch , A. F. Nowakowski , F. C. G. A. Nicolleau , T. M. Michelitsch

Stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (SADMM) is a popular method for solving nonconvex nonsmooth optimization in various applications. However, it typically requires an empirical selection of the static batch size for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Jiachen Jin , Kangkang Deng , Boyu Wang , Hongxia Wang