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Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

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Sampling diverse, thermodynamically feasible molecular conformations plays a crucial role in predicting properties of a molecule. In this paper we propose to use GFlowNet for sampling conformations of small molecules from the Boltzmann…

We present an implementation of the fast multipole method for computing coulombic electrostatic and polarization forces from polarizable force-fields based on induced point dipole moments. We demonstrate the expected $O(N)$ scaling of that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan P. Coles , Michel Masella

Molecular simulations of the forced unfolding and refolding of biomolecules or molecular complexes allow to gain important kinetic, structural and thermodynamic information about the folding process and the underlying energy landscape. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Marco Oestereich , Jürgen Gauss , Gregor Diezemann

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism is a computationally affordable method for the calculation of accurate optical excitation energies in molecular systems. Similar to the ubiquitous adiabatic approximation of time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Pierre-François Loos , Xavier Blase

We present a clear and rigorous derivation of the Ewald-like method for calculation of the electrostatic energy of the systems infinitely periodic in two-dimensions and of finite size in the third dimension (slabs) which is significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Wasserman , J. R. Rustad , A. R. Felmy , B. P. Hay , J. W. Halley

Several implicit (continuum) solvent models are considered: the Polarized Continuum Model (PCM), the Surface Generalized Born model (SGB), and the COnductor-like Screening model (COSMO) as well as their implementation in the form of the…

Electrostatics is of paramount importance to chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is a primary model for electrostatic analysis. However, it is highly challenging to compute accurate PB electrostatic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Jiahui Chen , Yongjia Xu , Xin Yang , Zixuan Cang , Weihua Geng , Guo-Wei Wei

This document attempts to clarify potential confusion regarding electrostatics calculations, specifically in the context of biomolecular structure and specifically as regards the units typically used to contour/visualize isopotential…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-14 Cameron Mura

The evaluation of long-range Coulomb interactions is a significant cost in molecular dynamics (MD), even when using Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) or Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) methods, which rely on Ewald splitting and the fast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jiuyang Liang , Libin Lu , Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang

In this paper we have derived explicitly computable bounds on the error in energy norms for the fully nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Together with the computable bounds, we have also obtained efficient error indicators which can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Johannes Kraus , Svetoslav Nakov , Sergey Repin

At low reduced electric fields the electron energy distribution function in heavy noble gases can take two distinct shapes. This "bistability effect" - in which electron-electron (Coulomb) collisions play an essential role - is analyzed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nikolay Dyatko , Zoltan Donko

Accurate calculations of solvation free energies remain a central challenge in molecular simulations, often requiring extensive sampling and numerous alchemical intermediates to ensure sufficient overlap between phase-space distributions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-02 Maximilian Schebek , Nikolas M. Froböse , Bettina G. Keller , Jutta Rogal

The formation energy of a solid surface can be extracted from slab calculations if the bulk energy per atom is known. It has been pointed out previously that the resulting surface energy will diverge with slab thickness if the bulk energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Fiorentini , M. Methfessel

The lowest electronic excitations of benzene and a set of donor-acceptor molecular complexes are calculated for the gas phase and on the Al(111) surface using the many-body Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). The energy of the charge-transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. M. Garcia-Lastra , K. S. Thygesen

We present a massively parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of the vertical excitation energies (VEEs) and optical absorption spectra of condensed and molecular systems, starting…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Yu Jin , Giulia Galli , Marco Govoni

A parameterization strategy for molecular models on the basis of force fields is proposed, which allows a rapid development of models for small molecules by using results from quantum mechanical (QM) ab initio calculations and thermodynamic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 Bernhard Eckl , Jadran Vrabec , Hans Hasse

We propose an efficient and accurate parametric finite element method (PFEM) for solving sharp-interface continuum models for solid-state dewetting of thin films with anisotropic surface energies. The governing equations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , Yan Wang , Quan Zhao

We propose a new method to describe three-body breakups of nuclei, in which the Lippmann-Schwinger equation is solved combining with the complex scaling method. The complex-scaled solutions of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation (CSLS) enables…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Yuma Kikuchi , Takayuki Myo , Masaaki Takashina , Kiyoshi Kato , Kiyomi Ikeda

We present efficient and reliable molecular dynamics simulations of the photodissociation of dichloromethane followed by Coulomb explosion. These simulations are performed by calculating trajectories on accurate potential energy surfaces of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yijue Ding