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In the field of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) modeling, which plays a pivotal role in the drug development process, traditional models frequently encounter difficulties in fully encapsulating the complexities of drug…

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Force-matched water models provide a practical route from first-principles reference data to long classical and path-integral molecular simulations. Previous flexible four-site potentials in the spirit of q-TIP4P/F showed that fitting…

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We present a new approach based on real time domain Feynman path integrals (RTPI) for electronic structure calculations and quantum dynamics, which includes correlations between particles exactly but within the numerical accuracy. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Hosein Gholizade , Ilkka Kylänpää , Tapio T. Rantala

Dirac-delta distributions are often crucial components of the solid-fluid coupling operators in immersed solution methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. This is certainly so for methods like the Immersed Boundary Method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Luca Heltai , Francesco Costanzo

The phase-integral method (PIM) is an asymptotic method of the geometrical optics or semi-classical type for solving approximately, but in many cases very accurately, a wide class of differential equations in physics. Unlike the related…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 S. Yngve , B. Thidé

This paper introduces an interacting-particle optimization method tailored to possibly non-convex composite optimization problems, which arise widely in signal processing. The proposed method, \emph{ProxiCBO}, integrates consensus-based…

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We have implemented a variant of the force gradient integrator proposed by Kennedy et.al. and are using it in our production 2+1 flavor DWF simulations with pion masses of 180 MeV in (4.5fm)3 volumes. We find modest speed-ups (\sim 20%)…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient modeling of molecular interactions with quantum mechanical (QM) accuracy. However, constructing robust and representative training datasets that capture subtle,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Lejia Zeng , Xintong Zhang , Yuchan Pei , Lifeng Zhao , Lan Hua , Jincai Yang , Niu Huang

This paper invites the reader to experiment with an easy-to-use MATLAB implementation of Metropolis integrators for Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation. These integrators are analysis-based, in the sense that they can rigorously simulate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Nawaf Bou-Rabee

Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational intensity and reliance on multiple software packages often limit their applicability…

Understanding how the complex intermolecular- and nano-structure present in organic semiconductor donor-acceptor blends impacts charge carrier motion, interactions, and recombination behavior is a critical fundamental issue with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-08 Michael C. Heiber , Thuc-Quyen Nguyen , Carsten Deibel

We present quasi-exact ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the partial static density responses and local field factors of hydrogen in the warm dense matter regime, from solid density conditions to the strongly compressed…

Grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations are essential for screening metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for gas adsorption, yet their accuracy is limited by underlying interatomic potentials. Universal machine-learned interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Connor W. Edwards , Fengxu Yang , Konstantin Stracke , Jack D. Evans

Path integrals for particles in curved spaces can be used to compute trace anomalies in quantum field theories, and more generally to study properties of quantum fields coupled to gravity in first quantization. While their construction in…

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Molecular dynamics (MD)-based path sampling algorithms are a very important class of methods used to study the energetics and kinetics of rare (bio)molecular events. They sample the highly informative but highly unlikely reactive…

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Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo (PMCMC) is a general computational approach to Bayesian inference for general state space models. Our article scales up PMCMC in terms of the number of observations and parameters by generating the…

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This paper deals with the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems in which a stiff anharmonic potential causes highly oscillatory solution behavior with solution-dependent frequencies. The impulse method, which uses micro- and…

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In this work the path integral formulation for rigid rotors, proposed by M\"user and Berne [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 2638 (1996)], is described in detail. It is shown how this formulation can be used to perform Monte Carlo simulations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-08 Eva G. Noya , Luis M. Sesé , Rafael Ramírez , Carl McBride , Maria M. Conde , Carlos Vega

We present a molecular simulation method to simultaneously find multiple transition pathways, and their associated free-energy profiles. The scheme extends path-metadynamics (PMD) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020601 (2012)] with multiple paths…

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