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Graphite, as a well-known carbon-based solid, is a paradigmatic example of the so-called van der Waals layered materials, which display a large anisotropy in their physical properties. Here we study quantum effects in structural and elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-16 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

Vibrational spectroscopy is a key technique to elucidate microscopic structure and dynamics. Without the aid of theoretical approaches, it is however, often difficult to understand such spectra at a microscopic level. Ab initio molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Philipp Schienbein

Molecules like water have vibrational modes with a zero-point energy well above room temperature. As a consequence, classical molecular dynamics simulations of their liquids largely underestimate the energy of modes with a higher zero-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-08 Sriram Ganeshan , Rafael Ramírez , M. V. Fernández-Serra

Predictive simulation of vibrational spectra of complex condensed-phase and interface systems with thousands of degrees of freedom has long been a challenging task of modern condensed matter theory. In this work, fourth-generation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Md Omar Faruque , Dil K. Limbu , Nathan London , Mohammad R. Momeni

Spectroscopy is an indispensable tool in understanding the structures and dynamics of molecular systems. However computational modelling of spectroscopy is challenging due to the exponential scaling of computational complexity with system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

Recently, Dammak and coworkers (H. Dammak, Y. Chalopin, M. Laroche, M. Hayoun, and J.J. Greffet. Quantumthermal bath for molecular dynamics simulation. Phys. Rev. Lett., 103:190601, 2009.) proposed that the quantum statistics of vibrations…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-30 Jean-Louis Barrat , David Rodney

Conducting precise electronic-vibrational dynamics simulations of molecular systems poses significant challenges when dealing with realistic environments composed of numerous vibrational modes. Here, we introduce a technique for the…

The quantum nature of nuclei plays an important role in the accurate modelling of light atoms such as hydrogen, but it is often neglected in simulations due to the high computational overhead involved. It has recently been shown that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Michele Ceriotti , David E. Manolopoulos , Michele Parrinello

An algorithm for simulation of quantum many-body dynamics having su(2) spectrum-generating algebra is developed. The algorithm is based on the idea of dynamical coarse-graining. The original unitary dynamics of the target observables, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 M. Khasin , R. Kosloff

Spectroscopy is the most important method for probing the structure of molecules. However, predicting molecular spectra on classical computers is computationally expensive, with the most accurate methods having a cost that grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Liam P. Flew , Ivan Kassal

This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Cheng Fan , Maodong Li , Sihao Yuan , Zhaoxin Xie , Dechin Chen , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao

Computing condensed phase spectra from atomistic simulations requires calculating correlation functions from molecular dynamics and can be very expensive. A totally general, data-driven method to reduce cost is to employ an exact rewriting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Thomas Sayer

Imaginary-time path integral (PI) is a rigorous tool to compute static properties at finite temperatures. However, the stiff PI internal modes poses a sampling challenge. This is commonly tackled using staging coordinates, in which the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-23 Sabry G. Moustafa , Andrew J. Schultz

Accurate simulation of nuclear quantum effects is essential for molecular modeling but expensive using path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD). We present GG-PI, a ring-polymer-based framework that combines generative modeling of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Weizhou Wang , Xuanxi Zhang , Jonathan Weare , Aaron R. Dinner

Work belongs to the most basic notions in thermodynamics but it is not well understood in quantum systems, especially in open quantum systems. By introducing a novel concept of work functional along individual Feynman path, we invent a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-30 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

Simulating vibrational dynamics is essential for understanding molecular structure, unlocking useful applications such as vibrational spectroscopy for high-fidelity chemical detection. Quantum algorithms for vibrational dynamics are…

We show how the path-integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics can be used to construct practical {\em ab initio} techniques for computing the chemical potential of molecules adsorbed on surfaces, with full inclusion of quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Alfe` , M. J. Gillan

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

The simulation of problems in kinetic plasma physics are often challenging due to strongly coupled phenomena across multiple scales. In this work, we propose a wavelet-based coarse-grained numerical scheme, based on the framework of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Paul Cazeaux , Jan S. Hesthaven

This study aims at examination of the lower-order spectral moments in collision-induced absorption (CIA), taking the translational He-Ar band as an example. General quantum corrections for the zeroth and first spectral moments are derived…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Daniil N. Chistikov , Artem A. Finenko