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Free energy of crystal phases is commonly evaluated by thermodynamic integration (TDI) along a reversible path that involves an external potential. A persistent problem in this method is that a significant hysteresis is observed due to…
Steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations for the calculation of free energies are well suited for high-throughput molecular simulations on a distributed infrastructure due to the simplicity of the setup and parallel granularity of the…
Ultrafast, time-resolved spectroscopies enable the direct observation of non-equilibrium processes in condensed-phase systems and have revealed key insights into energy transport, hydrogen-bond dynamics, and vibrational coupling. While ab…
Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational intensity and reliance on multiple software packages often limit their applicability…
We demonstrate an efficient and accurate, general-purpose first-principles blueprint for calculating anharmonic vibrational free energy and predicting structural phase transition temperatures of solids. Thermodynamic integration is…
We present a new method to evaluate vibrational free energies of atomic systems without a priori specification of an interatomic potential. Our model-agnostic approach leverages descriptors, high-dimensional feature vectors of atomic…
A kink-based path integral method, previously applied to atomic systems, is modified and used to study molecular systems. The method allows the simultaneous evolution of atomic and electronic degrees of freedom. Results for CH$_4 $, NH$_3…
An exact approach to compute physical properties for general multi-electronic-state (MES) systems in thermal equilibrium is presented. The approach is extended from our recent progress on path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) [J. Chem.…
The development and implementation of increasingly accurate methods for electronic structure calculations mean that, for many atomistic simulation problems, treating light nuclei as classical particles is now one of the most serious…
Calculating free energies is an important and notoriously difficult task for molecular simulations. The rapid increase in computational power has made it possible to probe increasingly complex systems, yet extracting accurate free energies…
A method based on the Gibbs' adsorption isotherm is developed to calculate the decrease in interfacial free energy resulting from solute segregation at an internal interface, built on measured concentration profiles. Utilizing atom-probe…
We present a method for performing path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations for fermions and address its sign problem. PIMD simulations are widely used for studying many-body quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. However, they…
We push the boundaries of electronic structure-based \textit{ab-initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) beyond 100 million atoms. This scale is otherwise barely reachable with classical force-field methods or novel neural network and machine…
Accurate free-energy calculations are essential for predicting thermodynamic properties and phase stability, but existing methods are limited: phonon-based approaches neglect anharmonicity and liquids, while molecular dynamics (MD) is…
Building on Paper I of this series, which introduced path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) estimators for the derivative of the potential of mean force (PMF), we propose two path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) integrators that can make use…
We present an accelerated ``on-the-fly'' coupled-cluster path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method for finite-temperature simulations in which electron correlation and nuclear quantum effects are treated simultaneously. The approach is…
Warm dense matter (WDM) is an active field of research, with applications ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. Ionization degree and continuum lowering are important quantities to understand how materials behave under…
A new method ( PI-DFT ) which combines path integrals and density functional theory is proposed as a pathway to many fields of physics. Within path integral theory it is possible to construct particle densities without explicitly…
The introduction of machine learned potentials (MLPs) has greatly expanded the space available for studying Nuclear Quantum Effects computationally with ab initio path integral (PI) accuracy, with the MLPs' promise of an accuracy comparable…
The accurate description of non-ideal quantum many-body systems is of prime importance for a host of applications within physics, quantum chemistry, material science, and related disciplines. At finite temperatures, the gold standard is…