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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…

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The Mori-Zwanzig formalism is applied to derive an equation for the evolution of linear observables of the overdamped Langevin equation. To illustrate the resulting equation and its use in deriving approximate models, a particular benchmark…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Thomas Hudson , Xingjie Helen Li

Constrained quantum dynamics is used to propose a nonlinear dynamical equation for pure states of a generalized coarse-grained system. The relevant constraint is given either by the generalized purity or by the generalized invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nikola Buric

Dynamical systems with large state-spaces are often expensive to thoroughly explore experimentally. Coarse-graining methods aim to define simpler systems which are more amenable to analysis and exploration; most current methods, however,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Michalis Michaelides , Dimitrios Milios , Jane Hillston , Guido Sanguinetti

We analyze the non-linear generalized Langevin equation which contains a thermodynamic force. We show that even for systems in thermal equilibrium the presence of the thermodynamic force implies that the auto-correlation function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-03 Fabian Koch , Tabita Wasmer , Tanja Schilling

We consider Langevin dynamics associated with a modified kinetic energy vanishing for small momenta. This allows us to freeze slow particles, and hence avoid the re-computation of inter-particle forces, which leads to computational gains.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-20 Stephane Redon , Gabriel Stoltz , Zofia Trstanova

We present a data-driven machine-learning approach for modeling space-time socioeconomic dynamics. Through coarse-graining fine-scale observations, our modeling framework simplifies these complex systems to a set of tractable mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 James Koch , Pranab Roy Chowdhury , Heng Wan , Parin Bhaduri , Jim Yoon , Vivek Srikrishnan , W. Brent Daniel

We investigate modifications of a stochastic polymer picture through a shift in the boundary between the system and an external environment. A conventional bead-and-spring model serving as the coarse-graining model is given by the Langevin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-12 Takuya Saito

Starting from the stochastic thermodynamics description of two coupled underdamped Brownian particles, we showcase and compare three different coarse-graining schemes leading to an effective thermodynamic description for the first of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-20 Tim Herpich , Kamran Shayanfard , Massimiliano Esposito

This paper shows an estimation of a lower bound on the total entropy production rate(EPR) for a system following Langevin dynamics with a single observed variable coarse-grained into a few discrete states, by invoking the underlying broken…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-07 Aishani Ghosal , Gili Bisker

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics often sacrifices accuracy and transferability for computational efficiency, but the use of machine learned potentials is helping coarse-grained models attain performance on par with atomistic molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Abigail Park , Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

Many approaches of coarse-graining have been developed under the names of Cosserat theory or polar-fluid theory, for those materials in which some component elements undergo non-affine deformations, such as elastic materials with inclusions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-11 Antoine Fruleux , Ken Sekimoto

We develop a formulation for molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms in the recently proposed generalized ensemble that is based on a physically motivated realisation of Tsallis weights. The effectiveness of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Frank Eisenmenger , Yuko Okamoto

We define a natural coarse-graining procedure which can be applied to any closed equilibrium quantum system described by a density matrix ensemble and we show how the coarse-graining leads to the Gaussian and canonical ensembles. After this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Jani Lukkarinen

The complexity of molecular dynamics simulations necessitates dimension reduction and coarse-graining techniques to enable tractable computation. The generalized Langevin equation (GLE) describes coarse-grained dynamics in reduced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Francesca Grogan , Huan Lei , Xiantao Li , Nathan A. Baker

Some basic questions about the hydrodynamical approach to relativistic heavy ion collisions are discussed aiming to clarify how far we can go with such an approach to extract useful information on the properties and dynamics of the QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ph. Mota , T. Kodama , J. Takahashi , R. Derradi de Souza

We generalize to stochastic dynamics the exact expression for average dissipation along an arbitrary non-equilibrium process, given in Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080602 (2007). We then derive lower bounds by various coarse-graining procedures and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-24 A. Gomez-Marin , J. M. R. Parrondo , C. Van den Broeck

A model reduction technique based on an optimization principle is employed to coarse-grain inviscid, incompressible fluid dynamics in two dimensions. In this reduction the spectrally-truncated vorticity equation defines the microdynamics,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Bruce Turkington , Qian-Yong Chen , Simon Thalabard

We investigate the nature of the effective dynamics and statistical forces obtained after integrating out nonequilibrium degrees of freedom. To be explicit, we consider the Rouse model for the conformational dynamics of an ideal polymer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Christian Maes , Simi R. Thomas

An analytical method to compute thermodynamic properties of a given Hamiltonian system is proposed. This method combines ideas of both dynamical systems and ensemble approaches to thermodynamics, providing de facto a possible alternative to…

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