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We introduce a novel simple algorithm for thermostatting path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) with the Langevin equation. The staging transformation of path integral beads is employed for demonstration. The optimum friction coefficients…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-17 Jian Liu , Dezhang Li , Xinzijian Liu

Atomically detailed simulations of RNA folding have proven very challenging in view of the difficulties of developing realistic force fields and the intrinsic computational complexity of sampling rare conformational transitions. To tackle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-26 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Cristian Micheletti , Samuela Pasquali , Pietro Faccioli

Protein folding processes are a vital aspect of molecular biology that is hard to simulate with conventional computers. Quantum algorithms have been proven superior for certain problems and may help tackle this complex life science…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Hanna Linn , Isak Brundin , Laura García-Álvarez , Göran Johansson

We demonstrate that the multicanonical approach is not restricted to Monte Carlo simulations, but can also be applied to simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms. The effectiveness of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto , Frank Eisenmenger

Unraveling the dynamical motions of biomolecules is essential for bridging their structure and function, yet it remains a major computational challenge. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a detailed depiction of biomolecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Allan dos Santos Costa , Manvitha Ponnapati , Dana Rubin , Tess Smidt , Joseph Jacobson

We present a method to investigate the kinetics of protein folding on a long time-scale and the dynamics underlying the formation of secondary and tertiary structures during the entire reaction. The approach is based on the formal analogy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 P. Faccioli , M. Sega , F. Pederiva , H. Orland

The assumption that similar structures have similar folding probabilities ($p_{fold}$) leads naturally to a procedure to evaluate $p_{fold}$ for every snapshot saved along an equilibrium folding-unfolding trajectory of a structured peptide…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Francesco Rao , Giovanni Settanni , Enrico Guarnera , Amedeo Caflisch

In scientific computing, the acceleration of atomistic computer simulations by means of custom hardware is finding ever growing application. A major limitation, however, is that the high efficiency in terms of performance and low power…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Varadarajan Rengaraj , Michael Lass , Christian Plessl , Thomas D. Kühne

Modeling and simulating the protein folding process overall remains a grand challenge in computational biology. We systematically investigate end-to-end quantum algorithms for simulating various protein dynamics with effects, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhenning Liu , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang , Jin-Peng Liu

We present an effective method for estimating the motion of proteins from the motion of attached probe particles in single-molecule experiments. The framework naturally incorporates Langevin dynamics to compute the most probable trajectory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Makito Miyazaki , Takahiro Harada

Simulating spontaneous structural rearrangements in macromolecules with classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) is an outstanding challenge. Conventional supercomputers can access time intervals up to tens of $\mu$s, while many key events occur…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Danial Ghamari , Roberto Covino , Pietro Faccioli

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-12 Venkat Kapil , Joost VandeVondele , Michele Ceriotti

Protein folding is the intricate process by which a linear sequence of amino acids self-assembles into a unique three-dimensional structure. Protein folding kinetics is the study of pathways and time-dependent mechanisms a protein undergoes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Vijay Arvind. R , Haribharathi Sivakumar , Brindha. R

Spontaneous structural rearrangements play a central role in the organization and function of complex biomolecular systems. In principle, physics-based computer simulations like Molecular Dynamics (MD) enable us to investigate these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Danial Ghamari , Philipp Hauke , Roberto Covino , Pietro Faccioli

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

A new general algorithm for optimization of potential functions for protein folding is introduced. It is based upon gradient optimization of the thermodynamic stability of native folds of a training set of proteins with known structure. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ole Winther , Anders Krogh

We describe a combination of all-atom simulations with CABS, a well-established coarse-grained protein modeling tool, into a single multiscale protocol. The simulation method has been tested on the C-terminal beta hairpin of protein G, a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Jacek Wabik , Sebastian Kmiecik , Dominik Gront , Maksim Kouza , Andrzej Kolinski

Natural proteins fold to a unique, thermodynamically dominant state. Modeling of the folding process and prediction of the native fold of proteins are two major unsolved problems in biophysics. Here, we show successful all-atom ab initio…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jae Shick Yang , William W. Chen , Jeffrey Skolnick , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Growing experimental evidence shows that proteins follow one or a few distinct paths when folding. We propose in this paper a procedure to parametrize these observed pathways, and from this parametrization construct effective Hamiltonians…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul G. Dommersnes , Alex Hansen , Mogens H. Jensen , Kim Sneppen

Folding protein dynamics has been an area of high interest for quite some time, especially given the increased focus on the field of Biophysics. Because folding dynamics occur on such short time scales, empirical techniques developed for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-11 Rickie Xian