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The accuracy of atomistic simulations depends on the precision of force fields. Traditional numerical methods often struggle to optimize the empirical force field parameters for reproducing target properties. Recent approaches rely on…

We provided a concise and self-contained introduction to molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which involves a body of fundamentals needed for all MD users. The associated computer code, simulating a gas of classical particles interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-01 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

We propose a method for multi-scale hybrid simulations of molecular dynamics (MD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In the method, usual lattice-mesh based simulations are applied for CFD level, but each lattice is associated with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-20 Shugo Yasuda , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Self-supervised pretraining from static structures of drug-like compounds and proteins enable powerful learned feature representations. Learned features demonstrate state of the art performance on a range of predictive tasks including…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-12 Derek Jones , Yue Yang , Felice C. Lightstone , Niema Moshiri , Jonathan E. Allen , Tajana S. Rosing

We describe a fast implementation of the quasi-centroid molecular dynamics (QCMD) method in which the quasi-centroid potential of mean force is approximated as a separable correction to the classical interaction potential. This correction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Theo Fletcher , Andrew Zhu , Joseph E. Lawrence , David E. Manolopoulos

Simulating large molecular systems over long timescales requires force fields that are both accurate and efficient. In recent years, E(3) equivariant neural networks have lifted the tension between computational efficiency and accuracy of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Leif Seute , Eric Hartmann , Jan Stühmer , Frauke Gräter

Biomolecular thermodynamics and spectroscopy depend on relative conformer energies, local curvatures, and collective dipole fluctuations on the potential-energy surface. Conventional molecular mechanics force fields enable large-scale…

Recent developments in many-body potential energy representation via deep learning have brought new hopes to addressing the accuracy-versus-efficiency dilemma in molecular simulations. Here we describe DeePMD-kit, a package written in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Weinan E

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

Three coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) models are investigated with the aim of developing and analyzing multiscale methods which use MD simulations in parts of the computational domain and (less detailed) Brownian dynamics (BD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Radek Erban

Accurate and efficient prediction of electronic wavefunctions is central to ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and electronic structure theory. However, conventional ab initio methods require self-consistent optimization of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Yanxian Tao , Lingyun Wan , Xiongzhi Zeng , Yingdi Jin , Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

The accuracy of molecular simulations is fundamentally limited by the interatomic potentials that govern atomic interactions. Traditional potential development, which relies heavily on ab initio calculations, frequently struggles to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-16 Ruoxia Chen , Kai Yang , Morten M. Smedskjaer , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Jaime Marian , Fabian Rosner

With the rapid advancement of computational techniques, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as powerful tools in biomedical research, enabling in-depth investigations of biological systems at the atomic level. Among the diverse…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-05 Reza Bozorgpour

With the continuous growth of processing power for scientific computing, first principles Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are becoming increasingly popular for the study of a wide range of problems in materials science,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Anders M. N. Niklasson , Marc J. Cawkwell

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

Highly accurate force fields are a mandatory requirement to generate predictive simulations. In this regard, Machine Learning Force Fields (MLFFs) have emerged as a revolutionary approach in computational chemistry and materials science,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Carlos A. Vital , Román J. Armenta-Rico , Huziel E. Sauceda

A tutorial introduction to the technique of Molecular Dynamics (MD) is given, and some characteristic examples of applications are described. The purpose and scope of these simulations and the relation to other simulation methods is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Kurt Binder , Jurgen Horbach , Walter Kob , Wolfgang Paul , Fathollah Varnik

Machine learning (ML) force fields have emerged as a powerful tool for computing materials properties at finite temperatures, particularly in regimes where traditional phonon-based perturbation theories fail or cannot be extended beyond the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Martin Callsen , Tai-Ting Lee , Mei-Yin Chou

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Hendrik Jung , Peter G. Bolhuis , Roberto Covino

Machine-learning force fields enable an accurate and universal description of the potential energy surface of molecules and materials on the basis of a training set of ab initio data. However, large-scale applications of these methods rest…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Valerio Briganti , Alessandro Lunghi