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Coarse-grain Lagrangian methods, such as Dissipative Particle Dynamics ( Hoogerbrugge et al., EPL, 1992), are suitable for describing mesoscopic fluid systems that include thermal fluctuations. However, the realistic simulation of liquids…

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The predictions of a class of phenomenological trap models of supercooled liquids are tested via computer simulation of a model glass-forming liquid. It is found that a model with a Gaussian distribution of trap energies provides a good…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Aldrin Denny , David R. Reichman , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

We compute the low-temperature configurational entropy of a two-dimensional supercooled liquid. Our method, based on a higher-dimensional version of the Grassberger--Procaccia algorithm, can be implemented in a manner that is entirely…

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Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are essential for accurately predicting the physical and chemical properties of large molecular systems across various pressure and temperature ensembles. However, the high computational costs associated…

We discuss the reliability of integral-equation methods based on several commonly used closure relations in determining the phase diagram of coarse-grained models of soft-matter systems characterized by mutually interacting soft and…

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A hierarchical (triple scale) simulation methodology is presented for the prediction of the dynamical and rheological properties of high molecular weight entangled polymer melts. The methodology consists of atomistic, moderately…

The aim of this work is the description of the chain formation phenomena observed in colloidal suspensions of superparamagnetic nanoparticles under high magnetic fields. We propose a new methodology based on an on-the-fly Coarse-Grain (CG)…

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The two-phase thermodynamic (2PT) model {[}J. Chem. Phys., \textbf{119}, 11792 (2003){]} provides a promising paradigm to efficiently determine the ionic entropies of liquids from molecular dynamics (MD). In this model, the vibrational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Tao Sun , Jiawei Xian , Huai Zhang , Zhigang Zhang , Yigang Zhang

A strategy is developed for generating equilibrated high molecular-weight polymer melts described with microscopic detail by sequentially backmapping coarse-grained (CG) configurations. The microscopic test model is generic but retains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-25 Guojie Zhang , Livia A. Moreira , Torsten Stuehn , Kostas Ch. Daoulas , Kurt Kremer

The calibration of CALPHAD (CALculation of PHAse Diagrams) models involves the solution of a very challenging high-dimensional multiobjective optimization problem. Traditional approaches to parameter fitting predominantly rely on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-06 Courtney Kunselman , Brandon Bocklund , Richard Otis , Raymundo Arroyave

We describe an approach to improving model fitting and model generalization that considers the entropy of distributions of modelling residuals. We use simple simulations to demonstrate the observational signatures of overfitting on ordered…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-05 Barnaby Rowe

The thermodynamic definition of entropy can be extended to nonequilibrium systems based on its relation to information. To apply this definition in practice requires access to the physical system's microstates, which may be prohibitively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-21 Gil Ariel , Haim Diamant

Accurate prediction of thermodynamic properties is pivotal in chemical engineering for optimizing process efficiency and sustainability. Physical group-contribution (GC) methods are widely employed for this purpose but suffer from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Nicolas Hayer , Thorsten Wendel , Stephan Mandt , Hans Hasse , Fabian Jirasek

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) is a technique developed as a concurrent multiscale model that couples conventional molecular dynamics (MD) to a more coarse-grained description of the periphery. The coarse-grained regions are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert E. Rudd , Jeremy Q. Broughton

Entropy of the cell fluid model with Curie-Weiss interaction is obtained in analytical form as a function of temperature and chemical potential. A parametric equation is derived representing the entropy as a function of density. Features of…

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An information theoretic approach inspired by quantum statistical mechanics was recently proposed as a means to optimize network models and to assess their likelihood against synthetic and real-world networks. Importantly, this method does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Nicolini , Vladimir Vlasov , Angelo Bifone

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) stand out among molecular liquids for their rich physicochemical characteristics, including structural and dynamic heterogeneity. The significance of electrostatic interactions in RTILs results in long…

A non-vanishing entropy production rate is one of the defining characteristics of any non-equilibrium system, and several techniques exist to determine this quantity directly from experimental data. The short-time inference scheme, derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-29 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan , Ayan Banerjee

We investigate the effect of coarse-graining on the energetics properties of a system, focusing on entropy production. As a case of study, we consider a one-dimensional colloidal particle in contact with a thermal bath, moving in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-08 Pierpaolo Bilotto , Lorenzo Caprini , Angelo Vulpiani

Understanding the training dynamics of deep neural networks remains a major open problem, with physics-inspired approaches offering promising insights. Building on this perspective, we develop a thermodynamic framework to describe the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ildus Sadrtdinov , Ekaterina Lobacheva , Ivan Klimov , Mikhail Burtsev , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Dmitry Vetrov