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Langevin dynamics has become a popular tool to simulate the Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. When the repartition of the Langevin equation involves the exact realization of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise, in addition to the conventional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Dezhang Li , Xu Han , Yichen Chai , Cong Wang , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu , Jiushu Shao

Ehrenfest, Born-Oppenheimer, Langevin and Smoluchowski dynamics are shown to be accurate approximations of time-independent Schr\"odinger observables for a molecular system avoiding caustics, in the limit of large ratio of nuclei and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 Anders Szepessy

Adaptive Langevin dynamics is a method for sampling the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution at prescribed temperature in cases where the potential gradient is subject to stochastic perturbation of unknown magnitude. The method replaces the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Benedict Leimkuhler , Matthias Sachs , Gabriel Stoltz

The Langevin equation includes a random force to maintain equilibrium and prevent friction from bringing motion to a standstill; but for ballistic motion, the random force is often neglected. Here, we use the Langevin equation for molecular…

The classical work by Zwanzig [J. Stat. Phys. 9 (1973) 215-220] derived Langevin dynamics from a Hamiltonian system of a heavy particle coupled to a heat bath. This work extends Zwanzig's model to a quantum system and formulates a more…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Håkon Hoel , Anders Szepessy

The diffusive dynamics of a particle in a medium with space-dependent friction coefficient is studied within the framework of the inertial Langevin equation. In this description, the ambiguous interpretation of the stochastic integral,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

In this article, we focus on the sampling of the configurational Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, that is, the calculation of averages of functions of the position coordinates of a molecular $N$-body system modelled at constant temperature. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Benedict Leimkuhler , Charles Matthews

Fragment mass distributions from the fission of U and Pu isotopes at low excitation energies are studied using a dynamical model based on the fluctuation-dissipation theorem formulated as Langevin equations. The present calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Y. Aritomo , S. Chiba

We study Langevin dynamics with stochastic diffusivity arising from fluctuations of the surrounding medium. The diffusivity is modeled as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process driven by symmetric dichotomous noise, which confines it to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dongho Lee , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Pascal Viot , Gleb Oshanin

This note provides an introduction to molecular dynamics, the computational implementation of the theory of statistical physics. The discussion is focused on the properties of Langevin dynamics, a degenerate stochastic differential equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Gabriel Stoltz

Stochastic thermostats based on the Langevin equation, in which a system is coupled to an external heat bath, are popular methods for temperature control in molecular dynamics simulations due to their ergodicity and their ease of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Mahdi Hijazi , David M. Wilkins , Michele Ceriotti

We study Langevin dynamics with a kinetic energy different from the standard, quadratic one in order to accelerate the sampling of Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions. In particular, this kinetic energy can be non-globally Lipschitz, which raises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-15 Gabriel Stoltz , Zofia Trstanova

We construct a quantum-circuit framework for finite-temperature molecular dynamics in the canonical ensemble (NVT) with a Langevin thermostat, connecting canonical state preparation to subsequent physical-property readouts. The classical…

We discuss a relativistic diffusion in the proper time in an approach of Schay and Dudley. We derive (Langevin) stochastic differential equations in various coordinates.We show that in some coordinates the stochastic differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Haba

An approach to non-adiabatic dynamics of atoms in molecular and condensed matter systems under general non-equilibrium conditions is proposed. In this method interaction between nuclei and electrons is considered explicitly up to the second…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 L. Kantorovich

For the Langevin model of the dynamics of a Brownian particle with perturbations orthogonal to its current velocity, in a regime when the particle velocity modulus becomes constant, an equation for the characteristic function $\psi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-01 V. A. Doobko , S. V. Zubarev , E. V. Karachanskaya

We study the convergence to equilibrium of an underdamped Langevin equation that is controlled by a linear feedback force. Specifically, we are interested in sampling the possibly multimodal invariant probability distribution of a Langevin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Tobias Breiten , Carsten Hartmann , Lara Neureither , Upanshu Sharma

Previous years researchers began to simulate open quantum system, taking into account the interaction between system and the environment. One approach to deal with this problem is to use the density matrix within the Liouville-von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Mohammad Attrash , Roi Baer

Macroscopic parameters as well as precise information on the random force characterizing the Langevin type description of the nuclear fusion process around the Coulomb barrier are extracted from the microscopic dynamics of individual…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-04 Kai Wen , Fumihiko Sakata , Zhu-Xia Li , Xi-Zhen Wu , Ying-Xun Zhang , Shan-Gui Zhou

Starting from a many-body classical system governed by a trace-form entropy we derive, in the stochastic quantization picture, a family of non linear and non-Hermitian Schroedinger equations describing, in the mean filed approximation, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Scarfone
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