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To address the time-scale limitations in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, numerous enhanced sampling methods have been developed to expedite the exploration of complex free energy landscapes. A commonly employed approach accelerates the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Zhijun Pan , Maodong Li , Dechin Chen , Yi Isaac Yang

Identifying a reduced set of collective variables is critical for understanding atomistic simulations and accelerating them through enhanced sampling techniques. Recently, several methods have been proposed to learn these variables directly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Luigi Bonati , Enrico Trizio , Andrea Rizzi , Michele Parrinello

Collective variables (CVs) play a crucial role in capturing rare events in high-dimensional systems, motivating the continual search for principled approaches to their design. In this work, we revisit the framework of quantitative coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Shashank Sule , Arnav Mehta , Maria K. Cameron

Using the collective variables (CV) method the basic relations of statistical field theory of a multicomponent non-homogeneous fluids are reconsidered. The corresponding CV action depends on two sets of scalar fields - fields…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-02 Oksana Patsahan , Ihor Mryglod , Jean-Michel Caillol

Rare event sampling is a central problem in modern computational chemistry research. Among the existing methods, transition path sampling (TPS) can generate unbiased representations of reaction processes. However, its efficiency depends on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Jintu Zhang , Odin Zhang , Luigi Bonati , TingJun Hou

We propose a rigorous construction of a 1D path collective variable to sample structural phase transformations in condensed matter. The path collective variable is defined in a space spanned by global collective variables that serve as…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-09 Jutta Rogal , Elia Schneider , Mark E. Tuckerman

The study of the rare transitions that take place between long lived metastable states is a major challenge in molecular dynamics simulations. Many of the methods suggested to address this problem rely on the identification of the slow…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Dhiman Ray , Enrico Trizio , Michele Parrinello

Sampling complex free energy surfaces is one of the main challenges of modern atomistic simulation methods. The presence of kinetic bottlenecks in such surfaces often renders a direct approach useless. A popular strategy is to identify a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Luigi Bonati , Yue-Yu Zhang , Michele Parrinello

Many biological processes occur on time scales longer than those accessible to molecular dynamics simulations. Identifying collective variables (CVs) and introducing an external potential to accelerate them is a popular approach to address…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Enrico Trizio , Andrea Rizzi , Pablo M. Piaggi , Michele Invernizzi , Luigi Bonati

Metadynamics is an established sampling method aimed at reconstructing the free-energy surface relative to a set of appropriately chosen collective variables. In standard metadynamics the free-energy surface is filled by the addition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-11 Davide Branduardi , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

We review a selection of methods for performing enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics simulations. We consider methods based on collective variable biasing and on tempering, and offer both historical and contemporary perspectives. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-03 Cameron Abrams , Giovanni Bussi

Free energies as a function of a selected set of collective variables are commonly computed in molecular simulation and of significant value in understanding and engineering molecular behavior. These free energy surfaces are most commonly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-15 Michael R. Shirts , Andrew L. Ferguson

The collective variable representation (CV) of classical statistical systems such as simple liquids has been intensively developed by the Ukrainian school after seminal works by Prof. Ihor Yukhnovskii. The basis and the structure of the CV…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Michel Caillol , Oksana Patsahan , Ihor Mryglod

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations allow the exploration of the phase space of biopolymers through the integration of equations of motion of their constituent atoms. The analysis of MD trajectories often relies on the choice of collective…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Toni Giorgino , Alessandro Laio , Alex Rodriguez

We present a method for determining the free energy dependence on a selected number of collective variables using an adaptive bias. The formalism provides a unified description which has metadynamics and canonical sampling as limiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-31 Alessandro Barducci , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

Biased sampling of collective variables is widely used to accelerate rare events in molecular simulations and to explore free energy surfaces. However, computational efficiency of these methods decreases with increasing number of collective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Shalini Awasthi , Nisanth N. Nair

High-dimensional metastable molecular system can often be characterised by a few features of the system, i.e. collective variables (CVs). Thanks to the rapid advance in the area of machine learning and deep learning, various deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Wei Zhang , Christof Schütte

Rather than simply recognizing the action of a person individually, collective activity recognition aims to find out what a group of people is acting in a collective scene. Previ- ous state-of-the-art methods using hand-crafted potentials…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Yongyi Tang , Peizhen Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu , Wei-Shi Zheng

Several enhanced sampling methods such as umbrella sampling or metadynamics rely on the identification of an appropriate set of collective variables. Recently two methods have been proposed to alleviate the task of determining efficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Yue-Yu Zhang , Haiyang Niu , GiovanniMaria Piccini , Dan Mendels , Michele Parrinello

Selection of appropriate collective variables for enhancing sampling of molecular simulations remains an unsolved problem in computational biophysics. In particular, picking initial collective variables (CVs) is particularly challenging in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-15 Mohammad M. Sultan , Vijay S. Pande