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The quality of biomolecular simulations critically depends on the accuracy of the force field used to calculate the potential energy of the molecular configurations. Currently, most simulations employ non-polarisable force fields, which…

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Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) based on density functional theory (DFT) has become a workhorse for studying the structure, dynamics, and reactions in condensed matter systems. Currently, AIMD simulations are primarily carried out at…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ritama Kar , Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Bernd Meyer , Nisanth N. Nair

Molecular optimization is a fundamental goal in the chemical sciences and is of central interest to drug and material design. In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various aspects of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenhao Gao , Tianfan Fu , Jimeng Sun , Connor W. Coley

We present a distilled multi-time-step (DMTS) strategy to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using foundation neural network models. DMTS uses a dual-level neural network where the target accurate potential is coupled to a simpler…

Molecular-scale computation is crucial for smart materials and nanoscale devices, yet creating single-molecule systems capable of complex computations remains challenging. We present a theoretical framework for a single-molecule computer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-01 Zhongmin Zhang , Zhiyue Lu

The accurate simulation of complex biochemical phenomena has historically been hampered by the computational requirements of high-fidelity molecular-modeling techniques. Quantum mechanical methods, such as ab initio wave-function (WF)…

Machine learning approaches have the potential to approximate Density Functional Theory (DFT) for atomistic simulations in a computationally efficient manner, which could dramatically increase the impact of computational simulations on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Joseph Musielewicz , Xiaoxiao Wang , Tian Tian , Zachary Ulissi

Living cells use readout molecules to record the state of receptor proteins, similar to measurements or copies in typical computational devices. But is this analogy rigorous? Can cells be optimally efficient, and if not, why? We show that,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-19 Thomas E. Ouldridge , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

The accuracy of molecular simulations is fundamentally limited by the interatomic potentials that govern atomic interactions. Traditional potential development, which relies heavily on ab initio calculations, frequently struggles to…

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We devise an approach for targeted molecular design, a problem of interest in computational drug discovery: given a target protein site, we wish to generate a chemical with both high binding affinity to the target and satisfactory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations often involve physical quantities spanning multiple orders of magnitude, such as the speed of light or electromagnetic field amplitudes. The standard practice for maintaining numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Yannik Mahlau , Lukas Berg , Bodo Rosenhahn

This paper presents a machine learning-accelerated optimization framework for RF power amplifier design that reduces simulation requirements by 65% while maintaining $\pm0.4$ dBm accuracy for the majority of the modes. The proposed method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Abhishek Sriram , Neal Tuffy

Accounting for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) can significantly alter material properties at finite temperatures. Atomic modeling using the path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method can fully account for such effects, but requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-21 A. A. Solovykh , N. E. Rybin , I. S. Novikov , A. V. Shapeev

Numerical simulations are a prominent tool in laser-plasma experiments. Their role, as a guide in new regime explorations and as a support for understanding laboratory results, is undisputed. But as the experiments themselves are growing in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 S. Sinigardi , J. Babaei , G. Turchetti

Molecular dynamics simulations have become essential in many areas of atomistic modelling from drug discovery to materials science. They provide critical atomic-level insights into key dynamical events experiments cannot easily capture.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Tiejun Wei , Balint Dudas , Edina Rosta

Computational study of molecules and materials from first principles is a cornerstone of physics, chemistry, and materials science, but limited by the cost of accurate and precise simulations. In settings involving many simulations, machine…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Marcel F. Langer , Alex Goeßmann , Matthias Rupp

The accuracy and efficiency of a coarse-grained (CG) force field are pivotal for high-precision molecular simulations of large systems with complex molecules. We present an automated mapping and optimization framework for molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Zhixuan Zhong , Lifeng Xu , Jian Jiang

We present SymPhas 2.0, a major update of the compile-time symbolic algebra simulation framework SymPhas for phase-field and reaction-diffusion models. This release introduces significant expansions and enhancements that enable the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Steven A. Silber , Mikko Karttunen

Chemistry has a key role in the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM), so it is highly desirable to follow its evolution in numerical simulations. However, it may easily dominate the computational cost when applied to large systems. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Grassi , S. Bovino , D. Schleicher , F. A. Gianturco

Poor scaling of dynamics simulations with number of dimensions is currently a major limiting factor in the simulation of photochemical processes. In this work, we investigate ways to reduce the dimensionality of many-atom systems with a…