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The primary limitation for the application of alchemical free energy methods to a wider variety of complex molecular systems is achieving reasonable sampling. Flexible binding complexes often have high free energy barriers, which require…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Anika Friedman , Michael Shirts

A simple, efficient, and accurate method is proposed to map multi-dimensional free energy landscapes. The method combines the temperature-accelerated molecular dynamics (TAMD) proposed in [Maragliano & Vanden-Eijnden, Chem. Phys. Lett. 426,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Maragliano , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

The free energy landscapes of several fundamental processes are characterized by high barriers separating long-lived metastable states. In order to explore these type of landscapes enhanced sampling methods are used. While many such methods…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Jayashrita Debnath , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

The free energy principle (FEP) states that any dynamical system can be interpreted as performing Bayesian inference upon its surrounding environment. In this work, we examine in depth the assumptions required to derive the FEP in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-23 Miguel Aguilera , Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

Understanding how different classes of molecules move across biological membranes is a prerequisite to predicting a solute's permeation rate, which is a critical factor in the fields of drug design and pharmacology. We use biased Molecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Nihit Pokhrel , Lutz Maibaum

High-throughput preclinical perturbation screens, where the effects of genetic, chemical, or environmental perturbations are systematically tested on disease models, hold significant promise for machine learning-enhanced drug discovery due…

Polymorphism rationalizes how processing can control the final structure of a material. The rugged free-energy landscape and exceedingly slow kinetics in the solid state have so far hampered computational investigations. We report for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-24 Chan Liu , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Omar Valsson , Kurt Kremer , Tristan Bereau

In this paper, we present a study on how to develop an efficient multiscale simulation strategy for the dynamics of chemically active systems on low-dimensional supports. Such reactions are encountered in a wide variety of situations,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Giacomo Mazzi , Yannick De Decker , Giovanni Samaey

We calculate the free energy of a hot gas of electrons and photons to three loops using the hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory reorganization of finite-temperature perturbation theory. We calculate the free energy through three loops by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Jens O. Andersen , Michael Strickland , Nan Su

The 'free energy principle' (FEP) has been suggested to provide a unified theory of the brain, integrating data and theory relating to action, perception, and learning. The theory and implementation of the FEP combines insights from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-26 Christopher L. Buckley , Chang Sub Kim , Simon McGregor , Anil K. Seth

Relative Binding Free Energy (RBFE) calculations are a cornerstone of rational hit-to-lead and lead optimization in modern drug discovery. However, the high computational cost and limited reliability in tackling large or complex molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Narjes Ansari , Félix Aviat , Jérôme Hénin , Jean-Philip Piquemal , Louis Lagardère

Current theories of heteropolymers are inherently macrpscopic, but are applied to folding proteins which are only mesoscopic. In these theories, one computes the averaged free energy over sequences, always assuming that it is self-averaging…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeffrey Chuang , Alexander Yu. Grosberg , Mehran Kardar

Based on a generative model (GM) and beliefs over hidden states, the free energy principle (FEP) enables an agent to sense and act by minimizing a free energy bound on Bayesian surprise. Inclusion of prior beliefs in the GM about desired…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Thijs van de Laar , Ayça Özçelikkale , Henk Wymeersch

Given a chemical reaction going from reactant (R) to the product (P) on a potential energy surface (PES) and a collective variable (CV) that discriminates between R and P, one can define a free-energy profile (FEP) as the logarithm of the…

We describe and implement iMapD, a computer-assisted approach for accelerating the exploration of uncharted effective Free Energy Surfaces (FES), and more generally for the extraction of coarse-grained, macroscopic information from…

Relative free energy calculations are now widely used in academia and industry, but the accuracy is often limited by poor sampling of the complexes conformational ensemble. To address this, we have developed a novel method termed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Anika J. Friedman , Wei-Tse Hsu , Michael R. Shirts

The free energetics of water density fluctuations in bulk water, at interfaces, and in hydrophobic confinement inform the hydration of hydrophobic solutes as well as their interactions and assembly. The characterization of such free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-15 Erte Xi , Sean M. Marks , Suruchi Fialoke , Amish J. Patel

In the last decade, the free energy principle (FEP) and active inference (AIF) have achieved many successes connecting conceptual models of learning and cognition to mathematical models of perception and action. This effort is driven by a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Joséphine Pazem , Marius Krumm , Alexander Q. Vining , Lukas J. Fiderer , Hans J. Briegel

Thermodynamic phase transitions, a central concept in physics and chemistry, are typically controlled by an interplay of enthalpic and entropic contributions. In most cases, the estimation of the enthalpy in simulations is straightforward…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Yamin Ben-Shimon , Barak Hirshberg , Yohai Bar-Sinai

This paper reviews standard oversampling strategies as performed in the Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM). Common to those approaches is that the oversampling is performed in the full space restricted to a patch but including coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Patrick Henning , Daniel Peterseim