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Advanced thermostats for molecular dynamics are proposed on the base of the rigorous Langevin dynamics. Because the latter accounts for the subsystem-bath interactions in details, the bath anisotropy and nonuniformity are described via the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 Roumen Tsekov

We present a new and improved method for simultaneous control of temperature and pressure in molecular dynamics simulations with periodic boundary conditions. The thermostat-barostat equations are build on our previously developed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

We investigate the motion of a colloidal particle driven out of equilibrium by an external torque. We use the molecular dynamics simulation that is alternative to the numerical integration approach based on the Langevin equation and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donghwan Yoo , Youngkyun Jung , Chulan Kwon

A systematic comparison was carried out to assess the influence of representative thermostat methods in constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations. The thermostat schemes considered include the Nos\'e--Hoover thermostat and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Kumpei Shiraishi , Emi Minamitani , Kang Kim

In Bhattacharya et al. (Science Advances, 2020), a set of chemical reactions involved in the dynamics of actin waves in cells was studied. Both at the microscopic level, where the individual chemical reactions are directly modelled using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Christian Hamster , Peter van Heijster

Reliable dynamical properties from molecular dynamics simulations require careful control of thermostatting artifacts. We systematically assess how NVE, deterministic thermostats, velocity-rescale dynamics, and stochastic Langevin-type…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Frederick Heinz , Sascha Jähnigen , Joana-Lysiane Schäfer , Bettina G. Keller

We present a novel approach to investigate the long-time stochastic dynamics of multi-dimensional classical systems, in contact with a heat-bath. When the potential energy landscape is rugged, the kinetics displays a decoupling of short and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 O. Corradini , P. Faccioli , H. Orland

Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE) thermostats have been used very effectively as a tool to manipulate and optimize the sampling of thermodynamic ensembles and the associated static properties. Here we show that a similar, exquisite level…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Mariana Rossi , Venkat Kapil , Michele Ceriotti

Recently, we have shown how a colored-noise Langevin equation can be used in the context of molecular dynamics as a tool to obtain dynamical trajectories whose properties are tailored to display desired sampling features. In the present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Michele Ceriotti , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

We show that a recently introduced stochastic thermostat [J. Chem. Phys. 126 (2007) 014101] can be considered as a global version of the Langevin thermostat. We compare the global scheme and the local one (Langevin) from a formal point of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-06-06 Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) has been extensively used to study thermal transport at various length scales in many materials. In this method, two local thermostats at different temperatures are used to generate a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhen Li , Shiyun Xiong , Charles Sievers , Yue Hu , Zheyong Fan , Ning Wei , Hua Bao , Shunda Chen , Davide Donadio , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Stochastic thermostats based on the Langevin equation, in which a system is coupled to an external heat bath, are popular methods for temperature control in molecular dynamics simulations due to their ergodicity and their ease of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Mahdi Hijazi , David M. Wilkins , Michele Ceriotti

We show a unified second-order scheme for constructing simple, robust and accurate algorithms for typical thermostats for configurational sampling for the canonical ensemble. When Langevin dynamics is used, the scheme leads to the BAOAB…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Zhijun Zhang , Xinzijian Liu , Zifei Chen , Haifeng Zheng , Kangyu Yan , Jian Liu

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation based on Langevin equation has been widely used in the study of structural, thermal properties of matters in difference phases. Normally, the atomic dynamics are described by classical equations of motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Jing-Tao Lü , Bing-Zhong Hu , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

Multi-particle collision dynamics is an appealing numerical technique aiming at simulating fluids at the mesoscopic scale. It considers molecular details in a coarse-grained fashion and reproduces hydrodynamic phenomena. Here, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-28 H. Híjar

Langevin dynamics has become a popular tool to simulate the Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. When the repartition of the Langevin equation involves the exact realization of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise, in addition to the conventional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Dezhang Li , Xu Han , Yichen Chai , Cong Wang , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu , Jiushu Shao

The properties of molecules and materials containing light nuclei are affected by their quantum mechanical nature. Modelling these quantum nuclear effects accurately requires computationally demanding path integral techniques. Considerable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Venkat Kapil , David M. Wilkins , Jinggang Lan , Michele Ceriotti

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Lagrangian stochastic modeling of the fluid velocity seen by inertial particles in a nonhomogeneous turbulent flow. A new Langevin-type model, compatible with the transport equation of the drift…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-01 Boris Arcen , Anne Tanière

Because most chemical or biological experiments are performed under conditions of controlled pressure and temperature, it is important to simulate the isobaric-isothermal ensemble at the atomic level to reveal the microscopic mechanism. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-14 Weihao Liang , Sihan Wang , Cong Wang , Weizhou Wang , Xinchen She , Chongbin Wang , Jiushu Shao , Jian Liu

Traditional stochastic modeling of reactive systems limits the domain of applicability of the associated path thermodynamics to systems involving a single elementary reaction at the origin of each observed change in composition. An…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 F. Baras , A. L. Garcia , M. Malek Mansour
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