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Event-driven molecular dynamics simulations are carried out on two rigid body systems which differ in the symmetry of their molecular mass distributions. First, simulations of methane in which the molecules interact via discontinuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lisandro Hernandez de la Pena , Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield , Sheldon B. Opps

In this work, we propose a path integral-inspired formalism for computing the quantum thermal expectation values of spin systems, when subject to magnetic fields that can be time-dependent and can accommodate the presence of Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Thomas Nussle , Stam Nicolis , Iason Sofos , Joseph Barker

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Hendrik Jung , Peter G. Bolhuis , Roberto Covino

We carry out highly accurate \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations to directly estimate the free energy of various warm dense matter systems including the uniform electron gas and hydrogen without any nodal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-02 Tobias Dornheim , Zhandos Moldabekov , Sebastian Schwalbe , Jan Vorberger

Quasicentroid molecular dynamics (QCMD) is a path-integral method for approximating nuclear quantum effects in dynamics simulations, which has given promising results for gas- and condensed-phase water. Here, by simulating the infrared…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Christopher Haggard , Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam , George Trenins , Stuart C. Althorpe

We have previously shown that Good-Turing statistics can be applied to molecular dynamics trajectories to estimate the probability of observing completely new (thus far unobserved) biomolecular structures, and showed that the method is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-05 Vasiliki Tsampazi , Nicholas M. Glykos

We derive equations of motion for higher order density response functions using the theory of thermodynamic Green's functions. We also derive expressions for the higher order generalized dielectric functions and polarization functions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-04 Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim , Maximilian P. Böhme , Zhandos Moldabekov , Panagiotis Tolias

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

For a long time, performing converged path integral simulations at ultra-low, but finite temperatures of a few Kelvin has been a nearly impossible task. However, recent developments in advanced colored noise thermostatting schemes for path…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Christoph Schran , Fabien Brieuc , Dominik Marx

A practical algorithm for many-electron systems based on the path-integral renormalization group (PIRG) method is proposed in the real-space finite-difference (RSFD) approach. The PIRG method, developed for investigating strongly correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-30 Masashi Kojo , Kikuji Hirose

In this paper I show how path integral techniques can be used to put measures on histories in "susceptible-infectious-recovered" (SIR)-type systems. The standard SIR solution emerges as the classical saddle point of the action describing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-03 Steven Gratton

A detailed description is provided of a new Worm Algorithm, enabling the accurate computation of thermodynamic properties of quantum many-body systems in continuous space, at finite temperature. The algorithm is formulated within the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Boninsegni , N. V. Prokof'ev , B. V. Svistunov

The interaction of electrons with quantized phonons and photons underlies the ultrafast dynamics of systems ranging from molecules to solids, and it gives rise to a plethora of physical phenomena experimentally accessible using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-21 Daniel Karlsson , Robert van Leeuwen , Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci

The uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature is of high current interest due to its key relevance for many applications including dense plasmas and laser excited solids. In particular, density functional theory heavily relies on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-15 Tobias Dornheim , Tim Schoof , Simon Groth , Alexey Filinov , Michael Bonitz

Building on Paper I of this series, which introduced path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) estimators for the derivative of the potential of mean force (PMF), we propose two path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) integrators that can make use…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Kevin P. Bishop , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Simulations of quantum transport in coherent conductors have evolved into mature techniques that are used in fields of physics ranging from electrical engineering to quantum nanoelectronics and material science. The most efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Mathieu Istas , Christoph Groth , Xavier Waintal

Simple bosonic path integral representation for path ordered exponent is derived. This representation is used, at first, to obtain new variant of non-Abelian Stokes theorem. Then new pure bosonic worldline path integral representations for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 F. A. Lunev

We propose a systematic way to investigate the low-temperature thermodynamic properties of quantum spin systems subject to the restriction that only a finite number of bosons may occupy a single lattice site. Such a kinematical interaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 L. V. Popovich , M. V. Medvedev

We review some of the techniques used to study the dynamics of disordered systems subject to both quenched and fast (thermal) noise. Starting from the Martin-Siggia-Rose path integral formalism for a single variable stochastic dynamics, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-26 John A. Hertz , Yasser Roudi , Peter Sollich

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are essential tools in computational chemistry and drug discovery, offering crucial insights into dynamic molecular behavior. However, their utility is significantly limited by substantial computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Bin Feng , Jiying Zhang , Xinni Zhang , Zijing Liu , Yu Li