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Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe time-scale limitations. To address this, enhanced sampling methods have been developed to improve exploration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Shams Mehdi , Zachary Smith , Lukas Herron , Ziyue Zou , Pratyush Tiwary

Molecular simulations in an open environment, involving ion exchange, are necessary to study various systems, from biosystems to confined electrolytes. However, grand-canonical simulations are often computationally demanding in condensed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Jeongmi Kim , Luc Belloni , Benjamin Rotenberg

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations present a data-mining challenge, given that they can generate a considerable amount of data but often rely on limited or biased human interpretation to examine their information content. By not asking the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Fabrice Roncoroni , Ana Sanz-Matias , Siddharth Sundararaman , David Prendergast

Including quantum mechanical effects on the dynamics of nuclei in the condensed phase is challenging, because the complexity of exact methods grows exponentially with the number of quantum degrees of freedom. Efforts to circumvent these…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mariana Rossi , Hanchao Liu , Francesco Paesani , Joel Bowman , Michele Ceriotti

Droplet motion over a surface with wettability gradient has been simulated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to highlight the underlying physics. GROMACS and Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) were used for simulation and intermittent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-13 Monojit Chakraborty , Anamika Chowdhury , Richa Bhusan , Sunando DasGupta

The rapid evolution of molecular dynamics (MD) methods, including machine-learned dynamics, has outpaced the development of standardized tools for method validation. Objective comparison between simulation approaches is often hindered by…

Theoretical concepts in condensed matter physics are typically verified and also developed by exploiting computer simulations mostly in simple models. Predictions based on these usually isotropic models are often at odds with measurement…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-13 K. Koperwas , A. Grzybowski , M. Paluch

All-atom and coarse-grained molecular dynamics are two widely used computational tools to study the conformational states of proteins. Yet, these two simulation methods suffer from the fact that without access to supercomputing resources,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-13 Gregory Schwing , Luigi L. Palese , Ariel Fernández , Loren Schwiebert , Domenico L. Gatti

Atomistic simulations with methods such as molecular dynamics are extremely powerful tools to understand nanoscale dynamical behavior. The resulting trajectories, by the virtue of being embedded in a high-dimensional configuration space,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-27 Animesh Agarwal , Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran , Nicholas Hengartner , Arthur F. Voter , Danny Perez

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have transformed our understanding of the nanoscale, driving breakthroughs in materials science, computational chemistry, and several other fields, including biophysics and drug design. Even on exascale…

When addressing spatial biological questions using mathematical models, symmetries within the system are often exploited to simplify the problem by reducing its physical dimension. In a reduced-dimension model molecular movement is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-17 Natasha S. Savage

Significant progress in computer hardware and software have enabled molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to model complex biological phenomena such as protein folding. However, enabling MD simulations to access biologically relevant…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-02 Heng Ma , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Hyungro Lee , Matteo Turilli , Michael T. Young , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan

Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Stan Z. Li

Due to particle conservation, Canonical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations fail in the description of surface phase transitions involving coverage or lateral density changes. However, a step on the surface can act effectively as a source…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Passerone , U. Tartaglino , F. Ercolessi , E. Tosatti

Our understanding of the physics of biological molecules, such as proteins and DNA, is limited because the approximations we usually apply to model inert materials are not in general applicable to soft, chemically inhomogeneous systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Sarah Harris , Vivien M. Kendon

Molecular dynamics is based on solving Newton's equations for many-particle systems that evolve along complex, highly fluctuating trajectories. The orbital instability and short-time complexity of Newtonian orbits is in sharp contrast to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Yuriy V. Sereda , Andrew Abi Mansour , Peter J. Ortoleva

Electrostatic forces play many important roles in molecular biology, but are hard to model due to the complicated interactions between biomolecules and the surrounding solvent, a fluid composed of water and dissolved ions. Continuum model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Jaydeep P. Bardhan , Matthew G. Knepley

Aqueous solid-liquid interfaces (SLI) are ubiquitous in nature and technology, often hosting molecular-level processes with macroscopic consequences. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations offer a tool of choice to investigate interfacial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-12 Mahdi Tavakol , Kislon Voïtchovsky

In most cases the ultrafast dynamics of resonantly excited molecules are considered, and almost always computed in the molecular frame, while experiments are carried out in the laboratory frame. Here we provide a formalism in terms of a lab…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Margaret Gregory , Simon Neville , Michael Schuurman , Varun Makhija

We study compressible fluid flow in narrow two-dimensional channels using a novel molecular dynamics simulation method. In the simulation area, an upstream source is maintained at constant density and temperature while a downstream…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Sun , C. Ebner