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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to calculate transport coefficients in a two-component plasma interacting through a repulsive Coulomb potential. The thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, electrothermal coefficient,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Briggs Damman , Jarett LeVan , Scott Baalrud

This computational experiment demonstrates that chain melting in lipids is a molecular process. BOMD is certainly the best method to reproduce such dynamics properties, since the electronic contributions to the various molecular structures…

We develop an all-electron path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method with free-particle nodes for warm dense matter and apply it to water and carbon plasmas. We thereby extend PIMC studies beyond hydrogen and helium to elements with core…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-22 Kevin Driver , Burkhard Militzer

For the case of reduction onto the non-zero momentum level, in the problem of the path integral quantization of a scalar particle motion on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with the given free isometric action of the compact semisimle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 S. N. Storchak

Within path sampling framework, we show that probability distribution divergences, such as the Chernoff information, can be estimated via thermodynamic integration. The Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution pertaining to different Hamiltonians is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-18 Silia Vitoratou , Ioannis Ntzoufras

The dynamics of spin-boson systems at very low temperatures has been studied using a real-time path-integral simulation technique which combines a stochastic Monte Carlo sampling over the quantum fluctuations with an exact treatment of the…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-22 Reinhold Egger , C. H. Mak

Vibrational spectra of condensed and gas-phase systems containing light nuclei are influenced by their quantum-mechanical behaviour. The quantum dynamics of light nuclei can be approximated by the imaginary time path integral (PI)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Félix Musil , Iryna Zaporozhets , Frank Noé , Cecilia Clementi , Venkat Kapil

We present an accelerated ``on-the-fly'' coupled-cluster path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method for finite-temperature simulations in which electron correlation and nuclear quantum effects are treated simultaneously. The approach is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Thomas Spura , Hossam Elgabarty , Thomas D. Kühne

For distinguishable particles it is well known that Brownian motion and a Feynman-Kac functional can be used to calculate the path integral (for imaginary times) for a general class of scalar potentials. In order to treat identical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 L. F. Lemmens , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese

Conventional molecular dynamics simulations macromolecules require long computational times because the most interesting motions are very slow compared with the fast oscillations of bond lengths and bond angles that limit the integration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexey K. Mazur

Mean-field molecular dynamics based on path integrals is used to approximate canonical quantum observables for particle systems consisting of nuclei and electrons. A computational bottleneck is the sampling from the Gibbs density of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Xin Huang , Petr Plechac , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy

Green's function plays a significant role in both theoretical analysis and numerical computing of partial differential equations (PDEs). However, in most cases, Green's function is difficult to compute. The troubles arise in the following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Guochang Lin , Fukai Chen , Pipi Hu , Xiang Chen , Junqing Chen , Jun Wang , Zuoqiang Shi

In a previous paper we have shown how, for bosonic fields, the generating functional in both relativistic quantum field theory and thermal field theory can be evaluated by use of a standard quantum mechanical path integral. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 D G C McKeon , a K Rebhan

We study the heat statistics of a quantum Brownian motion described by the Caldeira-Leggett model. By using the path integral approach, we introduce a novel concept of the quantum heat functional along every pair of Feynman paths. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-18 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

This paper presents a new approach to simulate forward and inverse problems of moving loads using physics-informed machine learning (PIML). Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) utilize the underlying physics of moving load problems and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Taniya Kapoor , Hongrui Wang , Alfredo Núñez , Rolf Dollevoet

Parameters of differential equations are essential to characterize intrinsic behaviors of dynamic systems. Numerous methods for estimating parameters in dynamic systems are computationally and/or statistically inadequate, especially for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-27 Jianbin Tan , Guoyu Zhang , Xueqin Wang , Hui Huang , Fang Yao

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

We present a novel Exchange Monte Carlo (EMC) method designed for application in continuous-space Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations at finite temperature. Traditional PIMC methods for bosonic systems suffer from long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xun Zhao , Synge Todo

Much of our mechanistic understanding of the functions of biological macromolecules is based on static structural experiments, which can be modelled either as single structures or conformational ensembles. While these provide us with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-02 Daria Gusew , Carl G. Henning Hansen , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

The Lindblad equation determines the time evolution of the density operator of open quantum systems. While valid for any system size, its use is, in practice, restricted to prototype/surrogate models with the aim of tackling specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Benedikt M. Reible , Somayeh Ahmadkhani , Luigi Delle Site