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This paper presents entropy symmetrization and high-order accurate entropy stable schemes for the relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations. It is shown that the conservative RMHD equations are not symmetrizable and do not admit a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Kailiang Wu , Chi-Wang Shu

Accurate crystal structure prediction (CSP) at finite temperatures with quantum anharmonic effects remains challenging but very prominent in systems with lightweight atoms such as superconducting hydrides. In this work, we integrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-01 Daniil Poletaev , Artem Oganov

We report a novel multi-scale simulation methodology to quantitatively predict the thermodynamic behaviour of polymer mixtures, that exhibit phases with broken orientational symmetry. Our system consists of a binary mixture of oligomers and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-07 William S. Fall , Hima Bindu Kolli , Biswaroop Mukherjee , Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

The random phase approximation (RPA) and the $GW$ approximation share the same total energy functional but RPA is defined on a restricted domain of Green's functions determined by a local Kohn-Sham (KS) potential. In this work, we perform…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Thomas Pitts , Damian Contant , Maria Hellgren

The quasiharmonic approximation (QHA) is the simplest nontrivial approximation for interacting phonons under constant pressure, bringing the effects of anharmonicity into temperature dependent observables. Nonetheless, the QHA is often…

Recent developments dedicated to the building of multiscale mechanical and chemical constitutive laws for energetic molecular crystals are presented and discussed. In particular, various tools have been specifically incorporated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Paul Lafourcade , Nicolas Bruzy , Paul Bouteiller , Jean-Bernard Maillet , Christophe Denoual

High-through computational thermodynamic approaches are becoming an increasingly popular tool to uncover novel compounds. However, traditional methods tend to be limited to stability predictions of stoichiometric phases at absolute zero.…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-20 Sayan Samanta , Axel Van de Walle

Equilibrating proteins and other biomacromolecules is cardinal for molecular dynamics simulation of such biological systems in which they perform free dynamics without any externally-applied mechanical constraint, until thermodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-11 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

We present an approximate energy-integration method for identifying collisional neutrino flavor instabilities. Direct evaluation of the dispersion relation requires multi-dimensional integrals over neutrino phase space, making systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura

Computational determination of the equilibrium state of heterogeneous phospholipid mem-branes is a significant challenge. We wish to explore the rich phase diagram of these multi-component systems. However, the diffusion and mixing times in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yevhen K. Cherniavskyi , Arman Fathizadeh , Ron Elber , D. Peter Tieleman

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-14 Weihao Liang , Sihan Wang , Cong Wang , Weizhou Wang , Xinchen She , Chongbin Wang , Jiushu Shao , Jian Liu

We test the performance of a number of two- and one-parameter double-hybrid approximations, combining semilocal exchange-correlation density functionals with periodic local second-order M{\o}ller-Plesset (LMP2) perturbation theory, for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Kamal Sharkas , Julien Toulouse , Lorenzo Maschio , Bartolomeo Civalleri

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a promising quantum algorithm for obtaining molecular ground-state energies with chemical accuracy. However, its computational cost, dominated by the Hamiltonian 1-norm $\lambda$ and the cost of the block…

Recently it was discovered that altering the shape of the meta stable and unstable branches of an equation of state (EOS) can greatly improve the numerical accuracy of liquid and gas densities in the pseudopotential method. Inspired by this…

The General Spectral Modeling (GSM) code employs the quasi-static approximation, a standard, low-density methodology that assumes the ionization balance is separable from a determination of the excited-state populations that give rise to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Justin Oelgoetz , Christopher J. Fontes , Hong Lin Zhang , Anil K. Pradhan

We present a simulation protocol that allows for efficient sampling of the degrees of freedom of a solute in explicit solvent. The protocol involves using a non-equilibrium umbrella sampling method, in this case the recently developed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Volodymyr Babin , Celeste Sagui

Understanding heat transport in semiconductors and insulators is of fundamental importance because of its technological impact in electronics and renewable energy harvesting and conversion. Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics provides a powerful…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-13 Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Zekun Chen , Nicholas W. Lundgren , Davide Donadio

Accurately predicting protein-ligand binding free energies (BFEs) remains a central challenge in drug discovery, particularly because the most reliable methods, such as free energy perturbation (FEP), are computationally intensive and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Farzad Molani , Art E. Cho

The ability to predict the composition- and temperature-dependent stability of refractory complex concentrated alloys (RCCAs) is vital to the design of high-temperature structural alloys. Here, we present a model based on first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-27 Zhaohan Zhang , Mu Li , John Cavin , Katharine Flores , Rohan Mishra

Efficient analysis and simulation of multiscale stochastic systems of chemical kinetics is an ongoing area for research, and is the source of many theoretical and computational challenges. In this paper, we present a significant improvement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Simon Cotter