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In this paper, we propose a cost-reduced method for finite-temperature molecular dynamics on a near-term quantum computer, Quantum Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (QCPMD). One of the most promising applications of near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Kohdai Kuroiwa , Takahiro Ohkuma , Hirokazu Sato , Ryosuke Imai

We introduce a novel approach for a fully quantum description of coupled electron-ion systems from first principles. It combines the variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) solution of the electronic part with the path integral (PI) formalism…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Félix Mouhat , Sandro Sorella , Rodolphe Vuilleumier , Antonino M. Saitta , Michele Casula

We present a simple and accurate computational method, which facilitates ab-initio path-integral molecular dynamics simulations, where the quantum mechanical nature of the nuclei is explicitly taken into account, at essentially no…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Chris John , Thomas Spura , Scott Habershon , Thomas D. Kühne

Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) play an essential role in many atomistic systems, yet their explicit inclusion in molecular simulations remains challenging. Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provides a rigorous framework for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ádám Madarász , Bence Balázs Mészáros , János Daru

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

Accurate simulation of nuclear quantum effects is essential for molecular modeling but expensive using path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD). We present GG-PI, a ring-polymer-based framework that combines generative modeling of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Weizhou Wang , Xuanxi Zhang , Jonathan Weare , Aaron R. Dinner

Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) is a well established simulation technique to compute exact equilibrium properties for a quantum system using classical trajectories in an extended phase space. Standard PIMD simulations are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Britta A. Johnson , Siyu Bu , Christopher J. Mundy , Nandini Ananth

An accurate treatment of the structures and dynamics that lead to enhanced chemical reactivity in enzymes requires explicit treatment of both electronic and nuclear quantum effects. The former can be captured in ab initio molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Lu Wang , Christine M. Isborn , Thomas E. Markland

The development and implementation of increasingly accurate methods for electronic structure calculations mean that, for many atomistic simulation problems, treating light nuclei as classical particles is now one of the most serious…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-12 Venkat Kapil , Joost VandeVondele , Michele Ceriotti

Two-dimensional Raman and hybrid terahertz/Raman spectroscopic techniques provide invaluable insight into molecular structure and dynamics of condensed-phase systems. However, corroborating experimental results with theory is difficult due…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Tomislav Begušić , Xuecheng Tao , Geoffrey A. Blake , Thomas F. Miller

Silicon carbide, a semiconducting material, has gained importance in the fields of ceramics, electronics, and renewable energy due to its remarkable hardness and resistance. In this study, we delve into the impact of nuclear quantum motion,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-24 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez , Gabriela Herrero-Saboya

Including quantum mechanical effects on the dynamics of nuclei in the condensed phase is challenging, because the complexity of exact methods grows exponentially with the number of quantum degrees of freedom. Efforts to circumvent these…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mariana Rossi , Hanchao Liu , Francesco Paesani , Joel Bowman , Michele Ceriotti

The quantum nature of nuclei plays an important role in the accurate modelling of light atoms such as hydrogen, but it is often neglected in simulations due to the high computational overhead involved. It has recently been shown that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Michele Ceriotti , David E. Manolopoulos , Michele Parrinello

This paper explores the interplay between quantum nuclear motion and anharmonicity, which causes nontrivial effects on the structural and dynamical characteristics of silicene, a two-dimensional (2D) allotrope of silicon with interesting…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-30 Carlos P. Herrero , Miguel del Canizo

Recent experiments have confirmed the importance of nuclear quantum effects even in large biomolecules at physiological temperature. Here we describe how the path integral formalism can be used to describe rigorously the nuclear quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Tomas Zimmermann , Jiri Vanicek

In the present study, the nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) on proton diffusivity in oxides were evaluated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with the quantum thermal bath (QTB) based on the Langevin dynamics. We employed the proton…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-20 Shunya Yamada , Kansei Kanayama , Kazuaki Toyoura

The path integral Lindblad dynamics (PILD) method [A. Bose, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15(12), 3363-3368 (2024)] had been introduced as a way of incorporating the impact of certain empirical processes like pumps and drains on the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Amartya Bose

Ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) is a powerful tool to simulate physical movements of molecules for investigating properties of materials. While AIMD is successful in some applications, circumventing its high computational costs is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Honomi Kashihara , Yudai Suzuki , Kenji Yasuoka

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation based on Langevin equation has been widely used in the study of structural, thermal properties of matters in difference phases. Normally, the atomic dynamics are described by classical equations of motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Jing-Tao Lü , Bing-Zhong Hu , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

Developing new methods for the accurate and efficient calculations of real-time quantum correlation functions is deemed one of the most challenging problems of modern condensed matter theory. Many popular methods, such as centroid molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nathan London , Mohammad R. Momeni