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We present a novel method for the calculation of the energy density of states D(E) for systems described by classical statistical mechanics. The method builds on an extension of a recently proposed strategy that allows the free energy…

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The hybrid particle-field molecular dynamics method is an efficient alternative to standard particle-based coarse grained approaches. In this work, we propose an automated protocol for optimisation of the effective parameters that define…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-02 Morten Ledum , Sigbjørn Løland Bore , Michele Cascella

We develop a rigorous error analysis for coarse-graining of defect-formation free energy. For a one-dimensional constrained atomistic system, we establish the thermodynamic limit of the defect-formation free energy and obtain explicitly the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Matthew Dobson , Manh Hong Duong , Christoph Ortner

Coarse-graining (CG) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of larger systems and longer timescales that are otherwise infeasible with atomistic models. Machine learning potentials (MLPs), with their capacity to capture many-body…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Weilong Chen , Franz Görlich , Paul Fuchs , Julija Zavadlav

We present a new method to compute free energies at a quantum mechanical (QM) level of theory from molecular simulations using cheap reference potential energy functions, such as force fields. To overcome the poor overlap between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Andrea Rizzi , Paolo Carloni , Michele Parrinello

Recent analysis of well-tempered metadynamics (WTmetaD) showed that it converges without mollification artifacts in the bias potential. Here we explore how metadynamics heals mollification artifacts, how healing impacts convergence time,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Bradley M. Dickson

The prediction of protein stability changes following single-point mutations plays a pivotal role in computational biology, particularly in areas like drug discovery, enzyme reengineering, and genetic disease analysis. Although…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-01 Ivan Rossi , Guido Barducci , Tiziana Sanavia , Paola Turina , Emidio Capriotti , Piero Fariselli

We introduce and explore an approach for constructing force fields for small molecules, which combines intuitive low body order empirical force field terms with the concepts of data driven statistical fits of recent machine learned…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Alice Allen , Gábor Csányi , Geneviève Dusson , Christoph Ortner

We study mean-field variational inference in a Bayesian linear model when the sample size n is comparable to the dimension p. In high dimensions, the common approach of minimizing a Kullback-Leibler divergence from the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Michael Celentano , Zhou Fan , Licong Lin , Song Mei

Recently, we have proposed the adaptive local basis set for electronic structure calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory in a pseudopotential framework. The adaptive local basis set is efficient and systematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Gaigong Zhang , Lin Lin , Wei Hu , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

We propose a new method for the problems of computing free energy and surface pressure for various statistical mechanics models on a lattice $\Z^d$. Our method is based on representing the free energy and surface pressure in terms of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 David Gamarnik , Dmitriy Katz

We present an efficient Monte-Carlo method for long-range interacting systems to calculate free energy as a function of an order parameter. In this method, a variant of the Wang-Landau method regarding the order parameter is combined with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Kazuya Watanabe , Munetaka Sasaki

We present a new estimator for computing free energy differences and thermodynamic expectations as well as their uncertainties from samples obtained from multiple equilibrium states via either simulation or experiment. The estimator, which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Michael R. Shirts , John D. Chodera

Likelihood-free Bayesian inference algorithms are popular methods for calibrating the parameters of complex, stochastic models, required when the likelihood of the observed data is intractable. These algorithms characteristically rely…

Computation · Statistics 2021-12-23 Thomas P Prescott , David J Warne , Ruth E Baker

The possibility of constructing Lorenz's concept of available potential energy (APE) from a local principle has been known for some time, but has received very little attention so far. Yet, the local APE framework offers the advantage of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lenka Novak , Remi Tailleux

Sampling from a target measure whose density is only known up to a normalization constant is a fundamental problem in computational statistics and machine learning. In this paper, we present a new optimization-based method for sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-03 Lingxiao Li , Qiang Liu , Anna Korba , Mikhail Yurochkin , Justin Solomon

Many models of interest in the natural and social sciences have no closed-form likelihood function, which means that they cannot be treated using the usual techniques of statistical inference. In the case where such models can be…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-19 Simon Barthelmé , Nicolas Chopin

Adaptive precision molecular dynamics simulations have developed along energy- and force-coupling approaches, which allow for a continuous transition between different particle descriptions or interaction potentials. Most approaches…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 David Immel , Ralf Drautz , Godehard Sutmann

Vibrating systems can respond to an infinite number of initial conditions and the overall dynamics of the system can be strongly affected by them. Therefore, it is of practical importance to have methods by which we can determine the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Karlo Lelas

In this work, the development and implementation of the effective stochastic potential (ESP) method is presented to perform efficient conformational sampling of molecules. The overarching goal of this work is to alleviate the computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jeremy A. Scher , Michael G. Bayne , Amogh Srihari , Shikha Nangia , Arindam Chakraborty