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We propose a data-driven framework for identifying coarse-grained (CG) Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential parameters in confined systems for simple liquids. Our approach involves the use of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) that is trained to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-06 Ishan Nadkarni , Haiyi Wu , Narayana. R. Aluru

Accurate simulations of molecules require high-level electronic-structure theory in combination with rigorous methods for approximating the quantum dynamics. Machine-learning approaches can significantly reduce the computational expense of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Valerii Andreichev , Jindra Dušek , Markus Meuwly , Jeremy O. Richardson

We consider the primal and dual forms of the optimality conditions for PDE-contrained optimization problems arising in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics when specialized to the reaction-diffusion context. Starting with the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ramon Codina , Roberto Federico Ausas , Pedro Balbão Bazon , Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a means to enhance the accuracy of biomolecular simulations. However, their application is constrained by the significant computational cost arising from the vast number of parameters compared to…

We study relationships between dynamic programs by applying conjugacy methods from dynamical systems theory. When two dynamic programs are connected by an order isomorphism, we show that optimality properties transmit from one formulation…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-22 John Stachurski , Junnan Zhang

We introduce a scheme for molecular simulations, the Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics (DeePMD) method, based on a many-body potential and interatomic forces generated by a carefully crafted deep neural network trained with ab initio data.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Han Wang , Roberto Car , Weinan E

We apply the recently developed adaptive ensemble optimization technique to simulate dense Lennard-Jones fluids and a particle-solvent model by broad-histogram Monte Carlo techniques. Equilibration of the simulated fluid is improved by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Trebst , Emanuel Gull , Matthias Troyer

One important development in interaction potential models, or atomistic force fields, for molecular simulation is the inclusion of explicit polarisation, which represents the induction effects of charged or polar molecules on polarisable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-25 Agílio A. H. Pádua

We present a new molecular-dynamics algorithm for integrating the equations of motion for a system of particles interacting with mixed continuous/impulsive forces. This method, which we call Impulsive Verlet, is constructed using operator…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yao A. Houndonougbo , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

We analyze the long-time quantum dynamics of degenerate parametric down-conversion from an initial sub-harmonic vacuum (spontaenous down-conversion). Standard linearization of the Heisenberg equations of motions fails in this case, since it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Fleischhauer , Oliver Veits

Recently, the intrinsic sampling method has been developed in order to obtain, from molecular simulations, the intrinsic structure of the liquid-vapor interface that is presupposed in the classical capillary wave theory. Our purpose here is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Duque , Pedro Tarazona , Enrique Chacón

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a well-known iterative method for computing maximum likelihood estimates from incomplete data. Despite its numerous advantages, a main drawback of the EM algorithm is its frequently observed…

Computation · Statistics 2018-08-14 Nicholas C. Henderson , Ravi Varadhan

We investigate a quasicontinuum method by means of analytical tools. More precisely, we compare a discrete-to-continuum analysis of an atomistic one-dimensional model problem with a corresponding quasicontinuum model. We consider next and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Mathias Schäffner , Anja Schlömerkemper

Different computational techniques in combination with molecular dynamics computer simulation are used to to determine the wall-liquid and the wall-crystal interfacial free energies of a modified Lennard-Jones (LJ) system in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ronald Benjamin , Jürgen Horbach

Diffusive molecular dynamics is a novel model for materials with atomistic resolution that can reach diffusive time scales. The main ideas of diffusive molecular dynamics are to first minimize an approximate variational Gaussian free energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Gideon Simpson , Mitchell Luskin , David J. Srolovitz

The formation and dissolution of a droplet is an important mechanism related to various nucleation phenomena. Here, we address the droplet formation-dissolution transition in a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones gas to demonstrate a consistent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Franz Paul Spitzner , Johannes Zierenberg , Wolfhard Janke

Evaporation and condensation at a liquid/vapor interface are ubiquitous interphase mass and energy transfer phenomena that are still not well understood. We have carried out large scale molecular dynamics simulations of Lennard-Jones (LJ)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-12 Shengfeng Cheng , Jeremy B. Lechman , Steven J. Plimpton , Gary S. Grest

Direct laser acceleration has proven to be an efficient source of high-charge electron bunches and high brilliance X-rays. However, an analytical description of the acceleration in the interaction with varying plasma density targets is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Robert Babjak , Bertrand Martinez , Miroslav Krus , Marija Vranic

We present a novel method for calculating the fundamental gap. To this end, reduced-density-matrix-functional theory is generalized to fractional particle number. For each fixed particle number, $M$, the total energy is minimized with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Helbig , N. N. Lathiotakis , M. Albrecht , E. K. U. Gross

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing the dynamics of non-linear systems from experimental datasets. Recently, several attempts have extended DMD to the context of low-rank approximations. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Patrick Héas , Cédric Herzet