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Bosonic exchange symmetry leads to fascinating quantum phenomena, from exciton condensation in quantum materials to the superfluidity of liquid Helium-4. Unfortunately, path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations of bosons are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

Massively parallel computer architectures create new opportunities for the performance of long-timescale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Here, we introduce the path-accelerated molecular dynamics (PAMD) method that takes advantage of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces , Bin Zhang , Thomas F. Miller

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

Two of the most successful methods that are presently available for simulating the quantum dynamics of condensed phase systems are centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) and ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD). Despite their conceptual…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-04 Mariana Rossi , Michele Ceriotti , David E. Manolopoulos

Developing efficient path integral (PI) methods for atomistic simulations of vibrational spectra in heterogeneous condensed phases and interfaces has long been a challenging task. Here, we present the h-CMD method, short for hybrid centroid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Dil K. Limbu , Nathan London , Md Omar Faruque , Mohammad R. Momeni

Feynman path integrals (PIs) have found many uses in approximate quantum dynamics methods that are able to efficiently calculate real-time quantum correlation functions. The PIs typically take the form of discrete imaginary time slices over…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Nathan London , Mohammad R. Momeni

We introduce mapping-variable ring polymer molecular dynamics (MV-RPMD), a model dynamics for the direct simulation of multi-electron processes. An extension of the RPMD idea, this method is based on an exact, imaginary time path-integral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nandini Ananth

We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with the number of particles. Path integral methods are a powerful tool to simulate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jacob Higer , Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD), which maps a quantum particle onto a fictitious classical system of ring polymers and propagates the "beads" of this extended classical system using molecular dynamics, is widely used to capture…

We develop a path-integral dynamics method for water that resembles centroid molecular dynamics (CMD), except that the centroids are averages of curvilinear, rather than cartesian, bead coordinates. The curvilinear coordinates are used…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 George Trenins , Michael J. Willatt , Stuart C. Althorpe

We describe a path-integral approach for including nuclear quantum effects in non-adiabatic chemical dynamics simulations. For a general physical system with multiple electronic energy levels, a corresponding isomorphic Hamiltonian is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-05 Xuecheng Tao , Philip Shushkov , Thomas Miller

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) has been successfully applied to perform simulations of large bosonic systems in a recent work (Hirshberg et al., PNAS, 116, 21445 (2019)). In this work we extend PIMD techniques to study Green's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Xiong Yunuo , Xiong Hongwei

To take into account nuclear quantum effects on the dynamics of atoms, the path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method used since 1980s is based on the formalism developed by R. P. Feynman. However, the huge computation time required for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 H. Dammak , M. Hayoun , F Brieuc , G. Geneste

The exact formulation of the path integral centroid dynamics is extended to include composites of the position and momentum operators. We present the generalized centroid dynamics (GCD), which provides a basis to calculate Kubo-transformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Atsushi Horikoshi

Path integral-based simulation methodologies play a crucial role for the investigation of nuclear quantum effects by means of computer simulations. However, these techniques are significantly more demanding than corresponding classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Karsten Kreis , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio , Mark E. Tuckerman

We present a method for performing path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations for fermions and address its sign problem. PIMD simulations are widely used for studying many-body quantum systems at thermal equilibrium. However, they…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Barak Hirshberg , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

The coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) or Brownian dynamics (BD) simulation is a particle-based approach that has been applied to a wide range of biological problems that involve interactions with surrounding fluid molecules or the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-20 Szu-Pei Fu , Yuan-Nan Young , Shidong Jiang

DL_POLY Quantum 2.1 is introduced here as a highly modular, sustainable, and scalable general-purpose molecular dynamics (MD) simulation software for large-scale long-time MD simulations of condensed phase and interfacial systems with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-08 Nathan London , Dil K. Limbu , Md Omar Faruque , Farnaz A. Shakib , Mohammad R. Momeni

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

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
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