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Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) is a well established simulation technique to compute exact equilibrium properties for a quantum system using classical trajectories in an extended phase space. Standard PIMD simulations are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Britta A. Johnson , Siyu Bu , Christopher J. Mundy , Nandini Ananth

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD), which maps a quantum particle onto a fictitious classical system of ring polymers and propagates the "beads" of this extended classical system using molecular dynamics, is widely used to capture…

This article introduces a highly parallel algorithm for molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces on single node multi- and many-core systems. The algorithm is designed to achieve high parallel speedups for strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 R. Meyer

This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Cheng Fan , Maodong Li , Sihao Yuan , Zhaoxin Xie , Dechin Chen , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao

We present our recent code modernizations of the of the ab initio molecular dynamics program CPMD (www.cpmd.org) with a special focus on the ultra-soft pseudopotential (USPP) code path. Following the internal instrumentation of CPMD, all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tobias Klöffel , Gerald Mathias , Bernd Meyer

Path integral molecular dynamics simulations, combined with an ab initio evaluation of interactions using electronic structure theory, incorporate the quantum mechanical nature of both the electrons and nuclei, which are essential to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Ondrej Marsalek , Thomas E. Markland

In this talk I discuss the general question of the portability of Molecular Dynamics codes for diffusive systems on parallel computers of the APE family. The intrinsic single precision arithmetics of the today available APE platforms does…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. La Penna , S. Letardi , V. Minicozzi , S. Morante , G. C. Rossi , G. Salina

Recently, fictitious identical particles have provided a promising way to overcome the fermion sign problem and have been used in path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) to accurately simulate warm dense matter with up to 1000 electrons (T.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-14 Yunuo Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Hongwei Xiong

McDonald, Pestana and Wathen (SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 40(2), pp. A2012-A1033, 2018) present a method for preconditioning of time-dependent PDEs via approximation by a nearby time-periodic problem, that is, they employ circulant-related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Anthony Goddard , Andrew Wathen

The structure and dynamics of the water/vapor interface is revisited by means of path-integral and second-generation Car-Parrinello ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations in conjunction with an instantaneous surface definition [A. P.…

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) has been successfully applied to perform simulations of large bosonic systems in a recent work (Hirshberg et al., PNAS, 116, 21445 (2019)). In this work we extend PIMD techniques to study Green's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Xiong Yunuo , Xiong Hongwei

Computer simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics, are very powerful computational techniques that provide detailed and essentially exact information on classical many-body problems. With the advent of ab-initio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Thomas D. Kühne

We develop a broadly-applicable computational method for the automatic exploration of the bimolecular multi-reaction mechanism. The current methodology mainly involves the high-energy Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Qinghai Cui , Jiawei Peng , Chao Xu , Zhenggang Lan

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) with hybrid density functionals and plane wave basis is computationally expensive due to the high computational cost of exact exchange energy evaluation. Recently, we proposed a strategy to combine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Nisanth N. Nair

Quantum mechanics based ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulation schemes offer an accurate and direct means to monitor the time-evolution of materials. Nevertheless, the expensive and repetitive energy and force computations required in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-14 Venkatesh Botu , Rampi Ramprasad

Computational chemistry allows researchers to experiment in sillico: by running a computer simulations of a biological or chemical processes of interest. Molecular dynamics with molecular mechanics model of interactions simulates N-body…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Jana Pazúriková

The implicit 2D3V particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to study the interaction of ultrashort pulse lasers with matter [G. M. Petrov and J. Davis, Computer Phys. Comm. 179, 868 (2008); Phys. Plasmas 18, 073102 (2011)] has been parallelized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 George M. Petrov , Jack Davis

In this paper, we present a new multibody physics simulation framework that utilizes the subsystem-based structure and the Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier (ADMM). The major challenge in simulating complex high degree of freedom…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jeongmin Lee , Minji Lee , Dongjun Lee

Large molecular dynamics simulations (millions of atoms, tens of microseconds, thousands of processors) hit the strong scalability wall: simulation on twice as many processors does not take half the time. Inspired by large N-body space…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Jana Pazúriková , Luděk Matyska