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We describe a novel algorithm that learns a Hamiltonian from local expectations of its Gibbs state using the free energy variational principle. The algorithm avoids the need to compute the free energy directly, instead using efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Adam Artymowicz

We revisit a unified methodology for the iterative solution of nonlinear equations in Hilbert spaces. Our key observation is that the general approach from [Heid & Wihler, Math. Comp. 89 (2020), Calcolo 57 (2020)] satisfies an energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Pascal Heid , Dirk Praetorius , Thomas P. Wihler

We introduce force-kernel extended-system adaptive biasing force (FK-eABF), a force-based kernel reformulation of eABF that replaces the histogram-based mean-force accumulator of conventional eABF with a sparse population of Gaussian…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Christopher Kang , Rahul Verma , Aditya Sonpal , Alyson Shoji , Christophe Chipot , Jim Pfaendtner

We propose a new method to obtain kinetic properties of infrequent events from molecular dynamics simulation. The procedure employs a recently introduced variational approach [Valsson and Parrinello, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 090601 (2014)] to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-19 James McCarty , Omar Valsson , Pratyush Tiwary , Michele Parrinello

The paper proposes a new adaptive approach to power system model reduction for fast and accurate time-domain simulation. This new approach is a compromise between linear model reduction for faster simulation and nonlinear model reduction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Denis Osipov , Kai Sun

Efficient sampling from the Boltzmann distribution given its energy function is a key challenge for modeling complex physical systems such as molecules. Boltzmann Generators address this problem by leveraging continuous normalizing flows to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rishal Aggarwal , Jacky Chen , Nicholas M. Boffi , David Ryan Koes

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Hendrik Jung , Peter G. Bolhuis , Roberto Covino

Machine-learned potentials (MLPs) trained on ab initio data combine the computational efficiency of classical interatomic potentials with the accuracy and generality of the first-principles method used in the creation of the respective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Leonid Kahle , Benoit Minisini , Tai Bui , Jeremy T. First , Corneliu Buda , Thomas Goldman , Erich Wimmer

Quantitative evaluations of the free energy of materials must take into account thermal and zero-point energy fluctuations. While these effects can easily be estimated within a harmonic approximation, corrections arising from the anharmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-18 Venkat Kapil , Edgar Engel , Mariana Rossi , Michele Ceriotti

Exploring the free-energy landscape along reaction coordinates or system parameters $\lambda$ is central to many studies of high-dimensional model systems in physics, e.g. large molecules or spin glasses. In simulations this usually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-05 Viveca Lindahl , Jack Lidmar , Berk Hess

An analytical approximation of a nonlinear force-free magnetic field (NLFFF) solution was developed in Paper I, while a numerical code that performs fast forward-fitting of this NLFFF approximation to a line-of-sight magnetogram and coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Markus J. Aschwanden

We investigate the coarse-graining of host-guest systems under the perspective of the local distribution of pore occupancies, along with the physical meaning and actual computability of the coarse-interaction terms. We show that the widely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Federico G. Pazzona , Giovanni Pireddu , Andrea Gabrieli , Alberto M. Pintus , Pierfranco Demontis

We propose a predictive Density Functional Theory (DFT) for the calculation of solvation free energies. Our approach is based on a Helmholtz free-energy functional that is consistent with the perturbed-chain SAFT (PC-SAFT) equation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Johannes Eller , Tanja Matzerath , Thijs van Westen , Joachim Gross

Efficient materials discovery requires reducing costly first-principles calculations for training machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). We develop an active learning (AL) framework that iteratively selects informative structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohammed Azeez Khan , Aaron D'Souza , Vijay Choyal

Many statistical models can be simulated forwards but have intractable likelihoods. Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods are used to infer properties of these models from data. Traditionally these methods approximate the posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 George Papamakarios , Iain Murray

We compute free energies as well as conformal anomalies associated with boundaries for a conformal free scalar field. To that matter, we introduce the family of spaces of the form $\mathbb{S}^a\times \mathbb{H}^b$, which are conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-21 Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Jorge G. Russo

Monte Carlo computer simulations are used to study the conformational free energy of a folded polymer confined to a long cylindrical tube. The polymer is modeled as a hard-sphere chain. Its conformational free energy $F$ is measured as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-07 James M. Polson , Aidan F. Tremblett , Zakary R. N. McLure

We present a method to explore the free energy landscapes of chemical reactions with post-transition-state bifurcations using an enhanced sampling method based on well-tempered metadynamics. Obviating the need for computationally expensive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Juno Nam , YounJoon Jung

Application of Jarzynski nonequilibrium work relation to free energy calculation is limited by the very slow convergence of the estimate when dissipation is high. We present a novel perturbation protocol able to improve the convergence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-03 Ognjen Perisic , Hui Lu

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a popular computational method for likelihood-free Bayesian inference. The term "likelihood-free" refers to problems where the likelihood is intractable to compute or estimate directly, but where it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Stuart Barber , Jochen Voss , Mark Webster