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Understanding the long-time dynamics of complex physical processes depends on our ability to recognize patterns. To simplify the description of these processes, we often introduce a set of reaction coordinates, customarily referred to as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Tuğçe Gökdemir , Jakub Rydzewski

Collective variables (CVs) play a crucial role in capturing rare events in high-dimensional systems, motivating the continual search for principled approaches to their design. In this work, we revisit the framework of quantitative coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Shashank Sule , Arnav Mehta , Maria K. Cameron

Enhanced sampling simulations make the computational study of rare events feasible. A large family of such methods crucially depends on the definition of some collective variables (CVs) that could provide a low-dimensional representation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jintu Zhang , Luigi Bonati , Enrico Trizio , Odin Zhang , Yu Kang , TingJun Hou , Michele Parrinello

High-dimensional metastable molecular system can often be characterised by a few features of the system, i.e. collective variables (CVs). Thanks to the rapid advance in the area of machine learning and deep learning, various deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Wei Zhang , Christof Schütte

Investigating processes in complex molecular systems, which are characterized by many variables, is a crucial problem in computational physics. These systems can be reduced to a few meaningful degrees of freedom known as collective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Tuğçe Gökdemir , Jakub Rydzewski

Extending spatio-temporal scale limitations of models for complex atomistic systems considered in biochemistry and materials science necessitates the development of enhanced sampling methods. The potential acceleration in exploring the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Markus Schöberl , Nicholas Zabaras , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

The dynamics of physical systems that require high-dimensional representation can often be captured in a few meaningful degrees of freedom called collective variables (CVs). However, identifying CVs is challenging and constitutes a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Jakub Rydzewski

Multivariate networks are commonly found in real-world data-driven applications. Uncovering and understanding the relations of interest in multivariate networks is not a trivial task. This paper presents a visual analytics workflow for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Hsiao-Ying Lu , Takanori Fujiwara , Ming-Yi Chang , Yang-chih Fu , Anders Ynnerman , Kwan-Liu Ma

Enhanced sampling methods typically require predefined collective variables (CVs) that presuppose knowledge of reaction coordinates, restricting the discovery of unanticipated transition mechanisms or intermediates. Here, we show that a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiangrui Li , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

We introduce a method for elucidating and modifying the functionality of systems dominated by rare events that relies on the automated tuning of their underlying free energy surface. The proposed approach seeks to construct collective…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Dan Mendels , Juan J. de Pablo

Understanding kinetics and thermodynamics profile of biomolecules is necessary to understand their functional roles which has a major impact in mechanism driven drug discovery. Molecular dynamics simulation has been routinely used to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-07 Soumendranath Bhakat

Many biological processes occur on time scales longer than those accessible to molecular dynamics simulations. Identifying collective variables (CVs) and introducing an external potential to accelerate them is a popular approach to address…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Enrico Trizio , Andrea Rizzi , Pablo M. Piaggi , Michele Invernizzi , Luigi Bonati

Molecular dynamics is crucial for understanding molecular systems but its applicability is often limited by the vast timescales of rare events like protein folding. Enhanced sampling techniques overcome this by accelerating the simulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Seonghyun Park , Kiyoung Seong , Soojung Yang , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli , Sungsoo Ahn

Free energy biasing methods have proven to be powerful tools to accelerate the simulation of important conformational changes of molecules by modifying the sampling measure. However, most of these methods rely on the prior knowledge of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Zineb Belkacemi , Paraskevi Gkeka , Tony Lelièvre , Gabriel Stoltz

Enhanced sampling techniques such as umbrella sampling and metadynamics are now routinely used to provide information on how the thermodynamic potential, or free energy, depends on a small number of collective variables. The free energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 Ilaria Gimondi , Gareth A. Tribello , Matteo Salvalaglio

Chemical reaction sampling critically depends on collective variables (CVs) that capture the slow degrees of freedom governing reactive transformations. However, existing reaction CVs are often defined in geometric space or learned in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 YaoKun Lei , Yi Isaac Yang

The study of the rare transitions that take place between long lived metastable states is a major challenge in molecular dynamics simulations. Many of the methods suggested to address this problem rely on the identification of the slow…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Dhiman Ray , Enrico Trizio , Michele Parrinello

This Brief Communication introduces a graph-neural-network architecture built on geometric vector perceptrons to predict the committor function directly from atomic coordinates, bypassing the need for hand-crafted collective variables…

In molecular dynamics simulations, rare events, such as protein folding, are typically studied using enhanced sampling techniques, most of which are based on the definition of a collective variable (CV) along which acceleration occurs.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Soojung Yang , Juno Nam , Johannes C. B. Dietschreit , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

A variety of enhanced sampling methods predict multidimensional free energy landscapes associated with biological and other molecular processes as a function of a few selected collective variables (CVs). The accuracy of these methods is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Lukas Müllender , Andrea Rizzi , Michele Parrinello , Paolo Carloni , Davide Mandelli
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