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The precise description of quantum nuclear fluctuations in atomistic modelling is possible by employing path integral techniques, which involve a considerable computational overhead due to the need of simulating multiple replicas of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Venkat Kapil , Jörg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

We extend ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) to allow for the direct simulation of general, electronically non-adiabatic chemical processes. The kinetically constrained (KC) RPMD method uses the imaginary-time path-integral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-05 Artur R. Menzeleev , Franziska Bell , Thomas F. Miller

A novel method for simulating the statistical mechanics of molecular systems in which both nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom are treated quantum mechanically is presented. The scheme combines a path integral description of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ruben O. Weht , Jorge Kohanoff , Dario A. Estrin , Charusita Chakravarty

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) based on density functional theory (DFT) has become a workhorse for studying the structure, dynamics, and reactions in condensed matter systems. Currently, AIMD simulations are primarily carried out at…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ritama Kar , Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Bernd Meyer , Nisanth N. Nair

The use of ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) for the direct simulation of electron transfer (ET) reaction dynamics is analyzed in the context of Marcus theory, semiclassical instanton theory, and exact quantum dynamics approaches. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-19 Artur R. Menzeleev , Nandini Ananth , Thomas F. Miller

In computer simulations, quantum delocalization of atomic nuclei can be modeled making use of the Path Integral (PI) formulation of quantum statistical mechanics. This approach, however, comes with a large computational cost. By restricting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-13 Karsten Kreis , Mark E. Tuckerman , Davide Donadio , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio

Developing new methods for the accurate and efficient calculations of real-time quantum correlation functions is deemed one of the most challenging problems of modern condensed matter theory. Many popular methods, such as centroid molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nathan London , Mohammad R. Momeni

We combine ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations with fixed ion configurations from density functional theory molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) simulations to solve the electronic problem for hydrogen under warm dense matter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maximilian Böhme , Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

For nearly the past 30 years, Centroid Molecular Dynamics (CMD) has proven to be a viable classical-like phase space formulation for the calculation of quantum dynamical properties. However, calculation of the centroid effective force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Timothy D. Loose , Patrick G. Sahrmann , Gregory A. Voth

A new simulation approach of field evaporation is presented. The model combines classical electrostatics with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Unlike previous atomic-level simulation approaches, our method does not rely on an…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-17 Jiayuwen Qi , Christian Oberdorfer , Emmanuelle A. Marquis , Wolfgang Windl

Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) remain a major challenge for molecular simulations, as rigorous treatment requires imaginary-time path-integral methods with heavy computational overhead. Neglecting NQEs leads to systematic errors in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jing Shen , Ziyan Ye , Ming-Zheng Du , Shi-Yu He , Dong H. Zhang , Jia-Xi Zeng , Venkat Kapil , Wei Fang

We introduce a powerful iterative algorithm to compute protein folding pathways, with realistic all-atom force fields. Using the path integral formalism, we explicitly derive a modified Langevin equation which samples directly the ensemble…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 S. Orioli , S. A Beccara , P. Faccioli

An exact real time quantum dynamics preaveraged over imaginary time path integral is formulated for general condensed phase equilibrium ensemble. This formulation results in the well-known centroid dynamics approach upon filtering of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Seogjoo Jang

The interaction of condensed phase systems with external electric fields is crucial in myriad processes in nature and technology ranging from the field-directed motion of cells (galvanotaxis), to energy storage and conversion systems…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Kit Joll , Philipp Schienbein , Kevin M. Rosso , Jochen Blumberger

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…

Computing condensed phase spectra from atomistic simulations requires calculating correlation functions from molecular dynamics and can be very expensive. A totally general, data-driven method to reduce cost is to employ an exact rewriting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Thomas Sayer

Quantum chemical simulations can be greatly accelerated by constructing machine learning potentials, which is often done using active learning (AL). The usefulness of the constructed potentials is often limited by the high effort required…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Yi-Fan Hou , Lina Zhang , Quanhao Zhang , Fuchun Ge , Pavlo O. Dral

We demonstrate the feasibility of quantum computing for large-scale, realistic chemical systems through the development of a new interface using a quantum circuit simulator and CP2K, a highly efficient first-principles calculation software.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tomoya Shiota , Klaas Gunst , Toshio Mori , Toru Shiozaki , Wataru Mizukami

We report the implementation of a multi-CPU and multi-GPU massively parallel platform dedicated to the explicit inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) in the Tinker-HP molecular dynamics (MD) package. The platform, denoted Quantum-HP,…

Ab initio simulations are capable of providing detailed information of material behavior at the nanoscale. Simulating experimentally relevant situations is, however, often computationally intense. Using hybrid approaches between ab initio…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Michael Sluydts , Michiel Larmuseau , Johan Lauwaert , Stefaan Cottenier