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Coarse-grained descriptions of dislocation motion in crystalline metals inherently represent a loss of information regarding dislocation-dislocation interactions. In the present work, we consider a coarse-graining framework capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-21 Joseph Anderson , Anter El-Azab

Complex fluids exhibit structure on a wide range of length and time scales, and hierarchical approaches are necessary to investigate all facets of their often unusual properties. The study of idealized coarse-grained models at different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-23 Friederike Schmid

Due to the wide range of timescales that are present in macromolecular systems, hierarchical multiscale strategies are necessary for their computational study. Coarse-graining (CG) allows to establish a link between different system…

In many far-from-equilibrium biological systems, energy injected by irreversible processes at microscopic scales propagates to larger scales to fulfill important biological functions. But given dissipative dynamics at the microscale, how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Qiwei Yu , Matthew P. Leighton , Christopher W. Lynn

In this paper, we discuss information-theoretic tools for obtaining optimized coarse-grained molecular models for both equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics. The latter are ubiquitous in physicochemical and biological…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Vagelis Harmandaris , Evangelia Kalligiannaki , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plecháč

Coarse-grained models are a core computational tool in theoretical chemistry and biophysics. A judicious choice of a coarse-grained model can yield physical insight by isolating the essential degrees of freedom that dictate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Shriram Chennakesavalu , David J. Toomer , Grant M. Rotskoff

We present a dynamic coarse-graining technique that allows to simulate the mechanical unfolding of biomolecules or molecular complexes on experimentally relevant time scales. It is based on Markov state models (MSM), which we construct from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-17 Fabian Knoch , Ken Schäfer , Gregor Diezemann , Thomas Speck

Inspired by holographic Wilsonian renormalization, we consider coarse graining a quantum system divided between short distance and long distance degrees of freedom, coupled via the Hamiltonian. Observations using purely long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Cesar Agon , Vijay Balasubramanian , Skyler Kasko , Albion Lawrence

With the guidance offered by nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics, simulation techniques are elevated from brute-force computer experiments to systematic tools for extracting complete, redundancy-free and consistent coarse grained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Hans Christian Öttinger

We present a data-driven machine-learning approach for modeling space-time socioeconomic dynamics. Through coarse-graining fine-scale observations, our modeling framework simplifies these complex systems to a set of tractable mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 James Koch , Pranab Roy Chowdhury , Heng Wan , Parin Bhaduri , Jim Yoon , Vivek Srikrishnan , W. Brent Daniel

Coarse-graining offers a means to extend the achievable time and length scales of molecular dynamics simulations beyond what is practically possible in the atomistic regime. Sampling molecular configurations of interest can be done…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Kirill Shmilovich , Marc Stieffenhofer , Nicholas E. Charron , Moritz Hoffmann

Starting from the detailed catalytic mechanism of a biocatalyst we provide a coarse-graining procedure which, by construction, is thermodynamically consistent. This procedure provides stoichiometries, reaction fluxes (rate laws), and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-27 Artur Wachtel , Riccardo Rao , Massimiliano Esposito

Coarse-grained (CG) modeling has gained significant attention in recent years due to its wide applicability in enhancing the spatiotemporal scales of molecular simulations. While CG simulations, often performed with Hamiltonian mechanics,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Jaehyeok Jin , Gregory A. Voth

We systematically derive an exact coarse-grained description for interacting particles with thermodynamically consistent stochastic dynamics, applicable across different observation scales, the mesoscopic and the macroscopic. We implement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can simulate large molecular complexes over extended timescales by reducing degrees of freedom. A critical step in CG modeling is the selection of the CG mapping algorithm, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-23 Soumya Mondal , Subhanu Halder , Debarchan Basu , Sandeep Kumar , Tarak Karmakar

A new procedure for coarse-graining dynamical triangulations is presented. The procedure provides a meaning for the relevant value of observables when "probing at large scales", e.g. the average scalar curvature. The scheme may also be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Joe Henson

In many systems we can describe emergent macroscopic behaviors, quantitatively, using models that are much simpler than the underlying microscopic interactions; we understand the success of this simplification through the renormalization…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Leenoy Meshulam , Jeffrey L. Gauthier , Carlos D. Brody , David W. Tank , William Bialek

The primary objective of this work is to develop coarse-graining schemes for stochastic many-body microscopic models and quantify their effectiveness in terms of a priori and a posteriori error analysis. In this paper we focus on stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac , Luc Rey-Bellet , Dimitrios K. Tsagkarogiannis

This work presents a systematic methodology for describing the transient dynamics of coarse-grained molecular systems inferred from all-atom simulated data. We suggest Langevin-type dynamics where the coarse-grained interaction potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 G. Baxevani , V. Harmandaris , E. Kalligiannaki , I. Tsantili

Dynamical systems with large state-spaces are often expensive to thoroughly explore experimentally. Coarse-graining methods aim to define simpler systems which are more amenable to analysis and exploration; most current methods, however,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Michalis Michaelides , Dimitrios Milios , Jane Hillston , Guido Sanguinetti