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For optimal processing and design of entangled polymeric materials it is important to establish a rigorous link between the detailed molecular composition of the polymer and the viscoelastic properties of the macroscopic melt. We review…

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The complexity of molecular dynamics simulations necessitates dimension reduction and coarse-graining techniques to enable tractable computation. The generalized Langevin equation (GLE) describes coarse-grained dynamics in reduced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Francesca Grogan , Huan Lei , Xiantao Li , Nathan A. Baker

A systematic comparison was carried out to assess the influence of representative thermostat methods in constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations. The thermostat schemes considered include the Nos\'e--Hoover thermostat and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Kumpei Shiraishi , Emi Minamitani , Kang Kim

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood generative models with importance sampling, but practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Weilong Chen , Bojun Zhao , Jan Eckwert , Julija Zavadlav

Simulations of condensed matter systems often focus on the dynamics of a few distinguished components but require integrating the dynamics of the full system. A prime example is a molecular dynamics simulation of a (macro)molecule in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Mauricio J. del Razo , Daan Crommelin , Peter G. Bolhuis

Capturing the correct dynamics at the Coarse-Grained (CG) scale remains a central challenge in the advancement of systematic CG models for soft matter simulations. The Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE), rooted in the Mori-Zwanzig…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-14 Jinu Jeong , Ishan Nadkarni , Narayana. R. Aluru

A new Langevin-Verlet thermostat that preserves the fluctuation-dissipation relationship for discrete time steps, is applied to molecular modeling and tested against several popular suites (AMBER, GROMACS, LAMMPS) using a small molecule as…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-17 Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Natha Robert Hayre , Oded Farago

We present a detailed derivation and testing of our approach to rescale the dynamics of mesoscale simulations of coarse-grained polymer melts (I. Y. Lyubimov et al. J. Chem. Phys. \textbf{132}, 11876, 2010). Starting from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 I. Y. Lyubimov , M. G. Guenza

Building on Paper I of this series, which introduced path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) estimators for the derivative of the potential of mean force (PMF), we propose two path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) integrators that can make use…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Kevin P. Bishop , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

The Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE) has been recently suggested to simulate the time evolution of classical solid and molecular systems when considering general non-equilibrium processes. In this approach, a part of the whole system (an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-23 L. Stella , C. D. Lorenz , L. Kantorovich

We introduce a powerful iterative algorithm to compute protein folding pathways, with realistic all-atom force fields. Using the path integral formalism, we explicitly derive a modified Langevin equation which samples directly the ensemble…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 S. Orioli , S. A Beccara , P. Faccioli

A challenging topic in materials engineering is the development of numerical models that can accurately predict material properties with atomistic accuracy, matching the scale and level of detail achieved by experiments. In this regard,…

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Predicting the molecular friction and energy landscapes under nonequilibrium conditions is key to coarse-graining the dynamics of selective solute transport through complex, fluctuating and responsive media, e.g., polymeric materials such…

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Langevin simulation provides an effective way to study collisional effects in beams by reducing the six-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation to a group of stochastic ordinary differential equations. These resulting equations usually have…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji Qiang , Salman Habib

We propose a systematic coarse-grained representation of block copolymers, whereby each block is reduced to a single ``soft blob'' and effective intra- as well as intermolecular interactions act between centres of mass of the blocks. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. I. Addison , J. P. Hansen , V. Krakoviack , A. A. Louis

Because most chemical or biological experiments are performed under conditions of controlled pressure and temperature, it is important to simulate the isobaric-isothermal ensemble at the atomic level to reveal the microscopic mechanism. By…

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A brief review of modeling and simulation methods for a study of polymers at interfaces is provided. When studying truly multiscale problems as provided by realistic polymer systems, coarse graining is practically unavoidable. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-19 Fathollah Varnik , Kurt Binder

Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models have the potential for simulating large molecular complexes beyond what is possible with atomistic molecular dynamics. However, training accurate CG models remains a challenge. A widely used…

We develop an accurate, highly efficient and scalable random batch sum-of-Gaussians (RBSOG) method for molecular dynamics simulations of systems with long-range interactions. The idea of the RBSOG method is based on a sum-of-Gaussians…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Jiuyang Liang , Zhenli Xu , Qi Zhou

We present a new method of conducting molecular dynamics simulation in isothermal-isobaric ensemble based on Langevin equations of motion. The stochastic coupling to all particle and cell degrees of freedoms is introduced in a correct way,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-28 Xingyu Gao , Jun Fang , Han Wang