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Chemical reactions inside cells are generally considered to happen within fixed-size compartments. Needless to say, cells and their compartments are highly dynamic. Thus, such stringent assumptions may not reflect biochemical reality, and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 Atiyo Ghosh , Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago

The essence of a chemical reaction lies in the redistribution and reorganization of electrons, which is often manifested through electron transfer or the migration of electron pairs. These changes are inherently discrete and abrupt in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Haitao Lin , Junjie Wang , Zhifeng Gao , Xiaohong Ji , Rong Zhu , Linfeng Zhang , Guolin Ke , Weinan E

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Benjamin X. Shi , Timothy C. Berkelbach

The fold recognition methods are promissing tools for capturing the structure of a protein by its amino acid residues sequence but their use is still restricted by the needs of huge computational resources and suitable efficient algorithms…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-30 Rumen Andonov , Guillaume Collet , Jean-François Gibrat , Antoine Marin , Vincent Poirriez , Nikola Yanev

The simulated tempering (ST) is an important method to deal with systems whose phase spaces are hard to sample ergodically. However, it uses accepting probabilities weights which often demand involving and time consuming calculations. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Carlos E. Fiore , M. G. E. da Luz

Leveraging Transformer attention has led to great advancements in HDR deghosting. However, the intricate nature of self-attention introduces practical challenges, as existing state-of-the-art methods often demand high-end GPUs or exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Xiaoning Liu , Ao Li , Zongwei Wu , Yapeng Du , Le Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Ce Zhu

The discovery of a minimum energy pathway (MEP) between metastable states is crucial for scientific tasks including catalyst and biomolecular design. However, the standard nudged elastic band (NEB) algorithm requires hundreds to tens of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-18 Pranav Kakhandiki , Sathya Chitturi , Daniel Ratner , Sean Gasiorowski

The formation of complex nonuniform phases of nuclear matter, known as nuclear pasta, is studied with molecular dynamics simulations containing 51200 nucleons. A phenomenological nuclear interaction is used that reproduces the saturation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-25 A. S. Schneider , C. J. Horowitz , J. Hughto , D. K. Berry

The Minima Hopping global optimization method uses physically realizable molecular dynamics moves in combination with an energy feedback that guarantees the escape from any potential energy funnel. For the purpose of finding reactions…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-05 Bastian Schaefer , Stephan Mohr , Maximilian Amsler , Stefan Goedecker

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are techniques allowing rapid variation of the system Hamiltonian without inducing excess heating. Fast optical transfer of atoms between different locations is a prime example of an STA application. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Gal Ness , Constantine Shkedrov , Yanay Florshaim , Yoav Sagi

The recrossing correction to the transition state theory estimate of a thermal rate can be difficult to calculate when the energy barrier is flat. This problem arises, for example, in polymer escape if the polymer is long enough to stretch…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 Harri Mökkönen , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Hannes Jónsson

Excited state proton transfer is an ubiquitous phenomenon in biology and chemistry, spanning from the ultrafast reactions of photo-bases and acids to light-driven, enzymatic catalysis and photosynthesis. However, the simulation of such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Brieuc Le Dé , Simon Huppert , Riccardo Spezia , Alex W. Chin

As computational chemistry methods evolve, dynamic effects have been increasingly recognized to govern chemical reaction pathways in both organic and inorganic systems. Here, we introduce a committor-based workflow that integrates a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Radu A. Talmazan , Christophe Chipot

Transition Path Theory (TPT) provides a rigorous framework to investigate the dynamics of rare thermally activated transitions. In this theory, a central role is played by the forward committor function q^+(x), which provides the ideal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-15 G. Bartolucci , S. Orioli , P. Faccioli

Mechanistic models are important tools to describe and understand biological processes. However, they typically rely on unknown parameters, the estimation of which can be challenging for large and complex systems. We present pyPESTO, a…

We introduce a path sampling method for obtaining statistical properties of an arbitrary stochastic dynamics. The method works by decomposing a trajectory in time, estimating the probability of satisfying a progress constraint, modifying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholas Guttenberg , Aaron R. Dinner , Jonathan Weare

We describe PyRaTE, a new, non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) line radiative transfer code developed specifically for post-processing astrochemical simulations. Population densities are estimated using the escape probability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 Aris Tritsis , Harold W. Yorke , Konstantinos Tassis

Sensitivity analysis of biochemical reactions aims at quantifying the dependence of the reaction dynamics on the reaction rates. The computation of the parameter sensitivities, however, poses many computational challenges when taking…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 Vo Hong Thanh , Roberto Zunino , Corrado Priami

The study of complex many-body systems via analysis of the trajectories of the units that dynamically move and interact within them is a non-trivial task. The workflow for extracting meaningful information from the raw trajectory data is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-31 Simone Martino , Matteo Becchi , Andrew Tarzia , Daniele Rapetti , Giovanni M. Pavan

An open-source and modular Python package, Catalight, is developed and demonstrated to automate (photo)catalysis measurements. (Photo)catalysis experiments require studying several parameters to evaluate performance, including temperature,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 B. B. Bourgeois , A. X. Dai , C. C. Carlin , L. Yuan , A. Al-Zubeidi , W-H. Cheng , D. F. Swearer , J. A. Dionne