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The evaluation of electrostatic energy for a set of point charges in a periodic lattice is a computationally expensive part of molecular dynamics simulations (and other applications) because of the long-range nature of the Coulomb…

Dielectrically confined Coulomb systems are widely employed in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Despite extensive efforts in developing efficient and accurate algorithms for these systems, rigorous and accurate error estimates, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Xuanzhao Gao , Qi Zhou , Zecheng Gan , Jiuyang Liang

The evaluation of long-range Coulomb interactions is a significant cost in molecular dynamics (MD), even when using Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) or Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) methods, which rely on Ewald splitting and the fast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jiuyang Liang , Libin Lu , Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang

Quantum simulation is a prominent application of quantum computers. While there is extensive previous work on simulating finite-dimensional systems, less is known about quantum algorithms for real-space dynamics. We conduct a systematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Andrew M. Childs , Jiaqi Leng , Tongyang Li , Jin-Peng Liu , Chenyi Zhang

Ewald summation is an important technique used to deal with long-range Coulomb interaction. While it is widely used in simulations of molecules and solid state materials, many important results are dispersed in literature and their…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 D. Wang , J. Liu , J. Zhang , S. Raza , X. Chen , C. -L. Jia

We develop Random Batch Methods for interacting particle systems with large number of particles. These methods use small but random batches for particle interactions, thus the computational cost is reduced from $O(N^2)$ per time step to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Shi Jin , Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Random batch algorithms are constructed for quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The main objective is to alleviate the computational cost associated with the calculations of two-body interactions, including the pairwise interactions in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li

We review a family of local algorithms that permit the simulation of charged particles with purely local dynamics. Molecular dynamics formulations lead to discretizations similar to those of ``particle in cell'' methods in plasma physics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Maggs , J. Rottler

In this work, we present a quantum algorithm for direct first-principles simulation of electron-nuclear dynamics on a first-quantized real-space grid. Our algorithm achieves best-in-class efficiency for block-encoding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Matthew Pocrnic , Ignacio Loaiza , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nathan Wiebe , Danial Motlagh

The event-chain Monte Carlo (ECMC) method is an irreversible Markov process based on the factorized Metropolis filter and the concept of lifted Markov chains. Here, ECMC is applied to all-atom models of multi-particle interactions that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-13 Michael F. Faulkner , Liang Qin , A. C. Maggs , Werner Krauth

Massively-parallel molecular dynamics simulation is applied to systems containing electrolytes, vapour-liquid interfaces, and biomolecules in contact with water-oil interfaces. Novel molecular models of alkali halide salts are presented and…

Ewald summation is widely used to calculate electrostatic interactions in computer simulations of condensed-matter systems. We present an analysis of the errors arising from truncating the infinite real- and Fourier-space lattice sums in…

chem-ph · Physics 2016-08-31 Gerhard Hummer

The three most common methods, Ewald, fast multipole (FMM) and the particle-particle particle-mesh (PPPM), used to compute the interactions in many body Coulombic systems are compared for single and multi-processor machines. The Ewald…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. L. Pollock , Jim Glosli

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In the first part of a series of two papers, we present in considerable detail a collision-driven molecular dynamics algorithm for a system of nonspherical particles, within a parallelepiped simulation domain, under both periodic or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aleksandar Donev , Salvatore Torquato , Frank H. Stillinger

A proper treatment of electrostatic interactions is crucial for the accurate calculation of forces in computer simulations. Electrostatic interactions are typically modeled using Ewald based methods, which have become one of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 K. A. Terrón-Mejía , R. López-Rendón , A. Gama Goicochea

The starting point is the problem of finding the interaction energy of two coinciding homogeneous cubic charge distributions. The brute force method of subdividing the cube into $N^3$ sub-cubes and doing the sums results in slow convergence…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2007-05-23 Hanno Essen

We review the Random Batch Methods (RBM) for interacting particle systems consisting of $N$-particles, with $N$ being large. The computational cost of such systems is of $O(N^2)$, which is prohibitively expensive. The RBM methods use small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Shi Jin , Lei Li

We present a super-polynomial improvement in the precision scaling of quantum simulations for coupled classical-quantum systems in this paper. Such systems are found, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations within the…

Using the specific model of a bilayer of classical charged particles (bilayer Wigner crystal), we compare the predictions for energies and pair distribution functions obtained by Monte Carlo simulations using three different methods…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Mazars