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Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However, all of the simulation methods come with limitations. In…

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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

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a widely-used tool for simulating the molecular and materials properties. It is a common wisdom that molecular dynamics simulations should obey physical laws and, hence, lots of effort is put into ensuring that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Lina Zhang , Yi-Fan Hou , Fuchun Ge , Pavlo O. Dral

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool for studying biomolecular structural changes, molecular recognition, transmembrane transport, and functional mechanisms. However, its practical bottleneck lies not only in software…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Zhenyu Ma , Chunyi Yang , Yuyang Song , Jingyi Zhu , Letian Yang , Limei Xu , Min Xiao , Xukai Jiang

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is widely used to analyze the properties of molecules and materials. Most practical applications, such as comparison with experimental measurements, designing drug molecules, or optimizing materials, rely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Frank Noé

Maximum entropy principle identifies forces conjugated to observables and the thermodynamic relations between them, independent upon their underlying mechanistic details. For data about state distributions or transition statistics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-08 Ying-Jen Yang , Hong Qian

Reconstructing 4D or 6D phase space distributions from 1D or 2D measurements is a challenging inverse problem encountered in particle accelerators. Entropy maximization is an established method to incorporate prior information in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Austin Hoover

Biomolecular force fields have been traditionally derived based on a mixture of reference quantum chemistry data and experimental information obtained on small fragments. However, the possibility to run extensive molecular dynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thorben Fröhlking , Mattia Bernetti , Nicola Calonaci , Giovanni Bussi

Conformational dynamics is crucial for ribonucleic acid (RNA) function. Techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, cryo-electron microscopy, small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering, chemical probing, single-molecule F\"orster resonance…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-31 Mattia Bernetti , Giovanni Bussi

Extended Lagrangian molecular dynamics (XLMD) is a general method for performing molecular dynamics simulations using quantum and classical many-body potentials. Recently several new XLMD schemes have been proposed and tested on several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Dong An , Sara Y. Cheng , Teresa Head-Gordon , Lin Lin , Jianfeng Lu

Model usage is the central challenge of model-based reinforcement learning. Although dynamics model based on deep neural networks provide good generalization for single step prediction, such ability is over exploited when it is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Chi Zhang , Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari , Viktor K Prasanna

Aligning theoretical atomistic structural models of materials with available experimental data presents a significant challenge for disordered systems. The configurational space to navigate is vast, and faithful realizations require large…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-29 Tigany Zarrouk , Miguel A. Caro

The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique has been widely used in complex systems, but the accessible time scale is limited due to the requirement of small integration timesteps. Here, we propose a novel method, named Exploratory…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Hai-Ming Cao , Bin Li

The montecarlo method, which is quite commonly used to solve maximum entropy problems in statistical physics, can actually be used to solve inverse problems in a much wider context. The probability distribution which maximizes entropy can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

The maximum entropy principle (MEP) apparently allows us to derive, or justify, fundamental results of equilibrium statistical mechanics. Because of this, a school of thought considers the MEP as a powerful and elegant way to make…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-09 Gennaro Auletta , Lamberto Rondoni , Angelo Vulpiani

Stochastic network models play a central role across a wide range of scientific disciplines, and questions of statistical inference arise naturally in this context. In this paper we investigate goodness-of-fit and two-sample testing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Subhro Ghosh , Rathindra Nath Karmakar , Samriddha Lahiry

For problems in astrophysics, planetary science and beyond, numerical simulations are often limited to simulating fewer particles than in the real system. To model collisions, the simulated particles (aka superparticles) need to be inflated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 David Nesvorny , Andrew N. Youdin , Raphael Marschall , Derek C. Richardson

It was recently demonstrated that a simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm involving the swap of particle pairs dramatically accelerates the equilibrium sampling of simulated supercooled liquids. We propose two numerical schemes integrating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Christopher J. Fullerton , Camille Scalliet , Murari Singh

The article is devoted to the problem of applying the maximum principle for finding optimal control parameters in simulation tasks of interest for a variety of engineering and industrial systems and processes. Especially important is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Ivan V. Kazachkov

Heterogeneous multiscale methods (HMM) combine molecular accuracy of particle-based simulations with the computational efficiency of continuum descriptions to model flow in soft matter liquids. In these schemes, molecular simulations…