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Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory is generalized in the limit of vanishing self-consistent field optimization prior to the force evaluations. The equations of motion are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Anders M. N. Niklasson , Marc J. Cawkwell

The simulation of complex stochastic network dynamics arising, for instance, from models of coupled biomolecular processes remains computationally challenging. Often, the necessity to scan a models' dynamics over a large parameter space…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-03-14 Tiago Ramalho , Marco Selig , Ulrich Gerland , Torsten A. Enßlin

We propose a local, O(N) molecular dynamics algorithm for the simulation of charged systems. The long ranged Coulomb potential is generated by a propagating electric field that obeys modified Maxwell equations. On coupling the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Jörg Rottler , A. C. Maggs

A class of variational schemes for the hydrodynamic-electrodynamic model of lossless free-electron gas in a quasineutral background is developed for high-quality simulations of surface plasmon polaritons. The Lagrangian density of lossless…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qiang Chen , Lifei Geng , Xiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang

We investigate the physics-constrained training of an encoder-decoder neural network for approximating the Fokker-Planck-Landau collision operator in the 5-dimensional kinetic fusion simulation in XGC. To train this network, we propose a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Alp Dener , Marco Andres Miller , Randy Michael Churchill , Todd Munson , Choong-Seock Chang

An efficient parallelization approach to simulate optical properties of ensembles of quantum emitters in realistic electromagnetic environments is considered. It relies on balancing computing load of utilized processors and is built into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maxim Sukharev

Multiplicative noise (also known as speckle noise) models are central to the study of coherent imaging systems, such as synthetic aperture radar and sonar, and ultrasound and laser imaging. These models introduce two additional layers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara , Panagiotis Patrinos , Quoc Tran-Dinh

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a means to enhance the accuracy of biomolecular simulations. However, their application is constrained by the significant computational cost arising from the vast number of parameters compared to…

We consider stochastic approximations of sampling algorithms, such as Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) and the Random Batch Method (RBM) for Interacting Particle Dynamcs (IPD). We observe that the noise introduced by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Aniket Das , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Anant Raj

Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) has become a well established method for unconstrained trajectory optimization. Despite its several applications in robotics and controls however, a widely successful constrained version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Yuichiro Aoyama , George Boutselis , Akash Patel , Evangelos A. Theodorou

An extended first-principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) method based on Kohn-Sham scheme is proposed to elevate the temperature limit of the FPMD method in the calculation of dense plasmas. The extended method treats the wave functions of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Shen Zhang , Hongwei Wang , Wei Kang , Ping Zhang , Xian-Tu He

We introduce a new method to accurately and efficiently estimate the effective dynamics of collective variables in molecular simulations. Such reduced dynamics play an essential role in the study of a broad class of processes, ranging from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-28 Hadrien Vroylandt , Ludovic Goudenège , Pierre Monmarché , Fabio Pietrucci , Benjamin Rotenberg

We present the Multilevel Bregman Proximal Gradient Descent (ML BPGD) method, a novel multilevel optimization framework tailored to constrained convex problems with relative Lipschitz smoothness. Our approach extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

We have developed a simulation technique of multiscale Lagrangian fluid dynamics to tackle hierarchical problems relating to historical dependency of polymeric fluid. We investigate flow dynamics of dilute polymeric fluid by using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 Takahiro Murashima , Takashi Taniguchi

Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics [Niklasson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 123004 (2008)] has been generalized to the propagation of the electronic wavefunctions. The technique allows highly efficient first principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-07 Peter Steneteg , Igor A. Abrikosov , Valery Weber , Anders M. N. Niklasson

Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) is used to directly simulate the dynamics of an excess electron in a supercritical fluid over a broad range of densities. The accuracy of the RPMD model is tested against numerically exact path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-27 Thomas F. Miller

Molecular dynamics with the stochastic process provides a convenient way to compute structural and thermodynamic properties of chemical, biological, and materials systems. It is demonstrated that the virtual dynamics case that we proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-20 Dezhang Li , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu

A new pairwise hybrid machine-learning/molecular mechanics (ML/MM) potential is introduced that is conceived for application to large, heterogeneous condensed-phase systems. The PhysNet ML method describes monomers and short-range dimer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Kham Lek Chaton , Eric D. Boittier , Mike Devereux , Markus Meuwly

We study policy optimization for infinite-horizon, discounted constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs). While existing theoretical guarantees typically hold for the mixture policy, deploying such a policy is computationally and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Michael Lu , Max Qiushi Lin , Mo Chen , Sharan Vaswani