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We propose a scheme for extending the model Hamiltonian method developed originally for studying the equilibrium properties of complex perovskite systems to include Langevin dynamics. The extension is based on Zwanzig's treatment of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Morrel H. Cohen

Jarzynski's identity for the free energy difference between two equilibrium states can be viewed as a special case of a more general procedure based on phase space mappings. Solving a system's equation of motion by approximate means…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wolfgang Lechner , Harald Oberhofer , Christoph Dellago , Phillip L. Geissler

We develop the thermodynamics of non-Markovian generalized Langevin equations by embedding them in a high-dimensional Markovian representation involving auxiliary degrees of freedom. If the memory is linear and satisfies detailed balance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Andreas Dechant , Kiyoshi Kanazawa

In this paper, we study the evolution of Markovian open quantum systems, whose dynamics are governed by the von Neumann-Lindblad equations. Our goal is to prove the return-to-equilibrium property for systems of infinite degrees of freedom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Donghao Ouyang , Israel Michael Sigal

We present a method for determining the free energy dependence on a selected number of collective variables using an adaptive bias. The formalism provides a unified description which has metadynamics and canonical sampling as limiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-31 Alessandro Barducci , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

The expansion of a classical Hamilton formalism consisting in adaptation of it to describe the nonequilibrium systems is offered. Expansion is obtained by construction of formalism on the basis of the dynamics equation of the equilibrium…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Somsikov

We apply well-established concepts of Langevin sampling to derive a new class of algorithms for the efficient computation of free energy differences of fluctuating particles embedded in a 'fast' membrane, i.e., a membrane that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Tobias Kies , Carsten Gräser , Luigi Delle Site , Ralf Kornhuber

We study the Langevin dynamics of diffusive particles with regular pairwise interactions under mean-field scaling. By approximating empirical distributions with conditional distributions, we establish coercive and contractive properties for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Songbo Wang

Energy transport equations are derived directly from full molecular dynamics models as coarse-grained description. With the local energy chosen as the coarse-grained variables, we apply the Mori-Zwanzig formalism to derive a reduced model,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 Weiqi Chu , Xiantao Li

We address the problem of constructing accurate mathematical models of the dynamics of complex systems projected on a collective variable. To this aim we introduce a conceptually simple yet effective algorithm for estimating the parameters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-28 Karen Palacio-Rodriguez , Fabio Pietrucci

We present a history-dependent Monte Carlo scheme for the efficient calculation of the free-energy of quantum systems, inspired by the Wang-Landau sampling and metadynamics method. When embedded in a path integral formulation, it is of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-08 Yanier Crespo , Alessandro Laio , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Erio Tosatti

Dynamic heterogeneity has often been modeled by assuming that a single-particle observable, fluctuating at a molecular scale, is influenced by its coupling to environmental variables fluctuating on a second, perhaps slower, time scale.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Gregor Diezemann , Gerald Hinze , Hans Sillescu

Accurate phase diagram calculation from molecular dynamics requires systematic treatment and convergence of statistical averages. In this work we propose a Gaussian process regression based framework for reconstructing the free energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 V. Ladygin , I. Beniya , E. Makarov , A. Shapeev

We develop an efficient sampling method by simulating Langevin dynamics with an artificial force rather than a natural force by using the gradient of the potential energy. The standard technique for sampling following the predetermined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Ohzeki , A. Ichiki

A central endeavor of thermodynamics is the measurement of free energy changes. Regrettably, although we can measure the free energy of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium, typically all we can say about the free energy of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-10 David A. Sivak , Gavin E. Crooks

A general nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory is developed for time-dependent Langevin dynamics, starting from the common definition of nonequilibrium Gibbs entropy. It is shown that the notations appearing in the First and the Second Law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-15 Hao Ge

Estimating free-energy differences using nonequilibrium work relations, such as the Jarzynski equality, is hindered by poor convergence when work fluctuations are large. For systems governed by overdamped Langevin dynamics, we propose the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-14 Stephen Whitelam

Previously developed ``stochastic representation of deterministic interactions`` enables exact treatment of an open system without leaving its native phase space (Hilbert space) due to peculiar stochastic extension of the Liouville (von…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. E. Kuzovlev

We present a unique derivation of metadynamics. The starting point for the derivation is an on-the-fly reweighting scheme but through an approximation we recover the standard metadynamics and the well-tempered metadynamics in a general form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Bradley M. Dickson

This paper provides a concise description of the free energy principle, starting from a formulation of random dynamical systems in terms of a Langevin equation and ending with a Bayesian mechanics that can be read as a physics of sentience.…