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Molecular dynamics simulates the~movements of atoms. Due to its high cost, many methods have been developed to "push the~simulation forward". One of them, metadynamics, can hasten the~molecular dynamics with the~help of variables describing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jana Pazúriková , Jaroslav Oľha , Aleš Křenek , Vojtěch Spiwok

Stochastic processes offer a fundamentally different paradigm of dynamics than deterministic processes, the most prominent example of the latter being Newton's laws of motion. Here, we discuss in a pedagogical manner a simple and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-15 Shamik Gupta , Arun M. Jayannavar

The state of many physical, biological and socio-technical systems evolves by combining smooth local transitions and abrupt resetting events to a set of reference values. The inclusion of the resetting mechanism not only provides the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Oriol Artime

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with high accuracy have been increasingly popular for their capability to bridge the gap between atomistic modeling and mesoscale phenomena. Both machine learning potentials and enhanced sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Haoting Zhang , Qiuhan Jia , Zhennan Zhang , Yijie Zhu , Zhongwei Zhang , Junjie Wang , Jiuyang Shi , Zheyong Fan , Jian Sun

This review describes recent advances by the authors and others on the topic of incorporating experimental data into molecular simulations through maximum entropy methods. Methods which incorporate experimental data improve accuracy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Dilnoza B. Amirkulova , Andrew D. White

Atomistic modelling of phase transitions, chemical reactions, or other rare events that involve overcoming high free energy barriers usually entails prohibitively long simulation times. Introducing a bias potential as a function of an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Federico Giberti , Bingqing Cheng , Gareth Aneurin Tribello , Michele Ceriotti

In ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of real-world problems, the simple Verlet method is still widely used for integrating the equations of motion, while more efficient algorithms are routinely used in classical molecular dynamics.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Eiji Tsuchida

Efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution of molecular systems is a long-standing challenge. Recently, instead of generating long molecular dynamics simulations, generative machine learning methods such as normalizing flows have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Henrik Schopmans , Pascal Friederich

Despite its widespread use in materials science, conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are severely constrained by timescale limitations. To address this shortcoming, we propose an empirical formulation of accelerated MD method,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-10 Liang Wan , Qingsong Mei , Haowen Liu , Huafeng Zhang , Jun-Ping Du , Shigenobu Ogata , Wen Tong Geng

Based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation method, the speed-limited PIC (SLPIC) method delivers faster kinetic plasma simulation in cases where the particle distributions evolve slowly compared with the maximum stable PIC…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Gregory R. Werner , Thomas G. Jenkins , Andrew M. Chap , John R. Cary

Stochastic resetting is known for its ability to accelerate search processes and induce non-equilibrium steady states. Here, we compare the relaxation times and resulting steady states of resetting and thermal relaxation for Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-31 Nir Sherf , Remi Goerlich , Barak Hirshberg , Yael Roichman

Molecular dynamics simulations are an important tool for describing the evolution of a chemical system with time. However, these simulations are inherently held back either by the prohibitive cost of accurate electronic structure theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Michael Gastegger , Philipp Marquetand

Simulations are vital for understanding and predicting the evolution of complex molecular systems. However, despite advances in algorithms and special purpose hardware, accessing the timescales necessary to capture the structural evolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Pantelis R. Vlachas , Julija Zavadlav , Matej Praprotnik , Petros Koumoutsakos

Normal molecular dynamics simulations are usually unable to simulate chemical reactions due to the low probability of forming the transition state. Therefore, enhanced sampling methods are implemented to accelerate the occurrence of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Yi Sun , Xu Han , Lijiang Yang

Metadynamics is a commonly used and successful enhanced sampling method. By the introduction of a history dependent bias which depends on a restricted number of collective variables(CVs) it can explore complex free energy surfaces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-06 Pratyush Tiwary , Michele Parrinello

In order to increase the efficiency of the computer simulation of biological molecules, it is very common to impose holonomic constraints on the fastest degrees of freedom; normally bond lengths, but also possibly bond angles. However, as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Pablo Echenique , Claudio N. Cavasotto , Pablo García-Risueño

Understanding molecular structure, dynamics, and reactivity requires bridging processes that occur across widely separated time scales. Conventional molecular dynamics simulations provide atomistic resolution, but their femtosecond time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Juan Viguera Diez , Mathias Schreiner , Simon Olsson

Equilibrating proteins and other biomacromolecules is cardinal for molecular dynamics simulation of such biological systems in which they perform free dynamics without any externally-applied mechanical constraint, until thermodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-11 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

We consider the motion of a randomly accelerated particle in one dimension under stochastic resetting mechanism. Denoting the position and velocity by $x$ and $v$ respectively, we consider two different resetting protocols - (i) complete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Prashant Singh

Multiple time scale molecular dynamics enhances computational efficiency by updating slow motions less frequently than fast motions. However, in practice the largest outer time step possible is limited not by the physical forces but by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-13 Joseph A. Morrone , Thomas E. Markland , Michele Ceriotti , B. J. Berne