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Molecules like water have vibrational modes with a zero-point energy well above room temperature. As a consequence, classical molecular dynamics simulations of their liquids largely underestimate the energy of modes with a higher zero-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-08 Sriram Ganeshan , Rafael Ramírez , M. V. Fernández-Serra

A new approach for integration of motion in many-body systems of interacting polyatomic molecules is proposed. It is based on splitting time propagation of pseudo-variables in a modified phase space, while the real translational and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor P. Omelyan

Particle smoothing methods are used for inference of stochastic processes based on noisy observations. Typically, the estimation of the marginal posterior distribution given all observations is cumbersome and computational intensive. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 H. -Ch. Ruiz , H. J. Kappen

In this paper, we present a splitting algorithm to solve multicomponent transport models. These models are related to plasma simulations, in which we consider the local thermodynamic equilibrium and weakly ionised plasma-mixture models that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Juergen Geiser

Stochastic reaction networks governed by Chemical Langevin Equations (CLE) exhibit pronounced multiscale dynamics spanning fast molecular reactions, intermediate transport, and slow cellular regulation, posing significant challenges for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yuming Zeng , Wei Xie , Keqi Wang

For a long time, performing converged path integral simulations at ultra-low, but finite temperatures of a few Kelvin has been a nearly impossible task. However, recent developments in advanced colored noise thermostatting schemes for path…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Christoph Schran , Fabien Brieuc , Dominik Marx

We present a method for performing path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations for fermions and address its sign problem. PIMD simulations are widely used for studying many-body quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. However, they…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Barak Hirshberg , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

Ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) has become a popular method for describing chemical reactions due to its ability to simultaneously capture tunneling, zero-point energy, anharmonicity and recrossing. Here we highlight that despite its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Joseph E. Lawrence , Jeremy O. Richardson

The quantum thermal average plays a central role in describing the thermodynamic properties of a quantum system. Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) is a prevailing approach for computing quantum thermal averages by approximating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Xuda Ye , Zhennan Zhou

Ultracold atomic systems have been of great research interest in the past, with more recent attention being paid to systems of mixed species. In this work we carry out non-perturbative Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of N…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-19 William G. Dawkins , Alexandros Gezerlis

Based on the path integral representation of the partition function of a many body system with separable two body interaction we propose a systematic extension of the perturbed static path approximation (PSPA) to lower temperatures.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Rummel , Joachim Ankerhold

The discrete time path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) with a one-particle density matrix approximation is applied to study the quantum phase transition in the coupled double-well chain. To improve the convergence properties, the exact action…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dong-Hee Kim , Yu-Cheng Lin , Heiko Rieger

It is now established that nuclear quantum motion plays an important role in determining water's hydrogen bonding, structure, and dynamics. Such effects are important to include in density functional theory (DFT) based molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Daniel C. Elton , Michelle Fritz , M. -V. Fernández-Serra

Quantum effects due to the spatial delocalization of light atoms are treated in molecular simulation via the path integral technique. Among several methods, Path Integral (PI) Molecular Dynamics (MD) is nowadays a powerful tool to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Animesh Agarwal , Luigi Delle Site

We demonstrate a new method of simulation of nonstationary quantum processes, considering the tunneling of two {\it interacting identical particles}, represented by wave packets. The used method of quantum molecular dynamics (WMD) is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. E. Lozovik , A. V. Filinov , A. S. Arkhipov

We demonstrate an efficient and accurate, general-purpose first-principles blueprint for calculating anharmonic vibrational free energy and predicting structural phase transition temperatures of solids. Thermodynamic integration is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Junsoo Park , Zhigang Wu , John W. Lawson

We introduce a new path integral Monte Carlo method for investigating nonadiabatic systems in thermal equilibrium and demonstrate an approach to reducing stochastic error. We derive a general path integral expression for the partition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Neil Raymond , Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Pierre-Nicholas Roy , Marcel Nooijen

Proton tunneling across hydrogen bonds is a fundamental quantum effect with implications for spectroscopy, catalysis, and biomolecular stability. While state-of-the-art instanton and path-integral methods provide accurate multidimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Krishna Kingkar Pathak

When simulating molecular systems using deterministic equations of motion (e.g., Newtonian dynamics), such equations are generally numerically integrated according to a well-developed set of algorithms that share commonly agreed-upon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 David A. Sivak , John D. Chodera , Gavin E. Crooks

This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Cheng Fan , Maodong Li , Sihao Yuan , Zhaoxin Xie , Dechin Chen , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao