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Optical micro-manipulation techniques has evolved into powerful tools to efficiently steer the motion of microscopical particles on periodic and quasi-periodic potentials, driven by the external electromagnetic field. Here, the dynamics of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Aliezer Martínez-Mesa , Llinersy Uranga Piña

Molecular dynamics with the stochastic process provides a convenient way to compute structural and thermodynamic properties of chemical, biological, and materials systems. It is demonstrated that the virtual dynamics case that we proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-20 Dezhang Li , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu

We extend the phase field crystal model to accommodate exact atomic configurations and vacancies by requiring the order parameter to be non-negative. The resulting theory dictates the number of atoms and describes the motion of each of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Pak Yuen Chan , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jon Dantzig

Most of animal and human behavior occurs on time scales much longer than the response times of individual neurons. In many cases, it is plausible that these long time scales emerge from the recurrent dynamics of electrical activity in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Xiaowen Chen , William Bialek

We present a new and improved method for simultaneous control of temperature and pressure in molecular dynamics simulations with periodic boundary conditions. The thermostat-barostat equations are build on our previously developed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

We introduce a new method to accurately and efficiently estimate the effective dynamics of collective variables in molecular simulations. Such reduced dynamics play an essential role in the study of a broad class of processes, ranging from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-28 Hadrien Vroylandt , Ludovic Goudenège , Pierre Monmarché , Fabio Pietrucci , Benjamin Rotenberg

Advanced thermostats for molecular dynamics are proposed on the base of the rigorous Langevin dynamics. Because the latter accounts for the subsystem-bath interactions in details, the bath anisotropy and nonuniformity are described via the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 Roumen Tsekov

We address the problem of constructing accurate mathematical models of the dynamics of molecular systems projected on a collective variable. To this aim we introduce an algorithm optimizing the parameters of a standard or generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-02 Andrea Pérez-Villa , Fabio Pietrucci

Diffusion in a multidimensional energy surface with minima and barriers is a problem of importance in statistical mechanics and also has wide applications, such as protein folding. To understand it in such a system, we carry out theory and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

In Bhattacharya et al. (Science Advances, 2020), a set of chemical reactions involved in the dynamics of actin waves in cells was studied. Both at the microscopic level, where the individual chemical reactions are directly modelled using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Christian Hamster , Peter van Heijster

Current molecular dynamic simulations of biomolecules using multiple time steps to update the slowingly changing force are hampered by an instability occuring at time step equal to half the period of the fastest vibrating mode. This has…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siu A. Chin

Understanding molecular structure, dynamics, and reactivity requires bridging processes that occur across widely separated time scales. Conventional molecular dynamics simulations provide atomistic resolution, but their femtosecond time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Juan Viguera Diez , Mathias Schreiner , Simon Olsson

We introduce a simplified technique for incorporating diffusive phenomena into lattice-gas molecular dynamics models. In this method, spatial interactions take place one dimension at a time, with a separate fractional timestep devoted to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Raissa M. D'Souza , Norman H. Margolus , Mark A. Smith

The properties of molecules and materials containing light nuclei are affected by their quantum mechanical nature. Modelling these quantum nuclear effects accurately requires computationally demanding path integral techniques. Considerable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Venkat Kapil , David M. Wilkins , Jinggang Lan , Michele Ceriotti

Molecular dynamics is one of the most commonly used approaches for studying the dynamics and statistical distributions of many physical, chemical, and biological systems using atomistic or coarse-grained models. It is often the case,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ben Leimkuhler , Daniel T. Margul , Mark E. Tuckerman

Dynamics simulations of constrained particles can greatly aid in understanding the temporal and spatial evolution of biological processes such as lateral transport along membranes and self-assembly of viruses. Most theoretical efforts in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Stefan Paquay , Remy Kusters

A procedure is introduced for deriving a coarse-grained dissipative particle dynamics from molecular dynamics. The rules of the dissipative particle dynamics are derived from the underlying molecular interactions, and a Langevin equation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eirik G. Flekkoy , Peter V. Coveney

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

Conventional molecular dynamics simulations macromolecules require long computational times because the most interesting motions are very slow compared with the fast oscillations of bond lengths and bond angles that limit the integration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexey K. Mazur

We propose score dynamics (SD), a general framework for learning accelerated evolution operators with large timesteps from molecular-dynamics simulations. SD is centered around scores, or derivatives of the transition log-probability with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Tim Hsu , Babak Sadigh , Vasily Bulatov , Fei Zhou