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We construct a new phase-field model for the solvation of charged molecules with a variational implicit solvent. Our phase-field free-energy functional includes the surface energy, solute-solvent van der Waals dispersion energy, and…

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Calculating relative free energies is a topic of substantial interest and has many applications including solvation and binding free energies, which are used in computational drug discovery. However, there remain the challenges of accuracy,…

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Understanding how different classes of molecules move across biological membranes is a prerequisite to predicting a solute's permeation rate, which is a critical factor in the fields of drug design and pharmacology. We use biased Molecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Nihit Pokhrel , Lutz Maibaum

Obtaining the free energies of condensed phase chemical reactions remains computationally prohibitive for high-level quantum mechanical methods. We introduce a hierarchical machine learning framework that bridges this gap by distilling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chenghan Li , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We devise automated workflows for the calculation of Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies and their temperature and pressure dependence and provide the corresponding computational tools. We employ non-equilibrium thermodynamics for evaluating…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Sarath Menon , Yury Lysogorskiy , Jutta Rogal , Ralf Drautz

The accurate treatment of long-range energy terms such as van der Waals interactions is crucial for reliable free energy calculations in molecular simulations. Methods like force switching, potential switching, potential shifting, and Ewald…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Lindsey M. Whitmore , Yalda Ramezani , Sumit Sharma , Michael R. Shirts

Free energy sampling methods allow studying the full dynamics of activated processes. Unfortunately, the affordable accuracy of the potential describing the energy and forces of the system is usually rather low. Here we introduce a new…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 GiovanniMaria Piccini , Michele Parrinello

The kinetic energy distribution function satisfying the Boltzmann equation is studied analytically and numerically for a system of inelastic hard spheres in the case of binary collisions. Analytically, this function is shown to have a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Sergei E. Esipov , Thorsten Poeschel

Solvation free energy is an important design parameter in reaction kinetics and separation processes, making it a critical property to predict during process development. In previous research, directed message passing neural networks…

Scalable sampling of molecular states in thermodynamic equilibrium is a long-standing challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann Generators tackle this problem by pairing a generative model, capable of exact likelihood computation, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Danyal Rehman , Tara Akhound-Sadegh , Artem Gazizov , Yoshua Bengio , Alexander Tong

In this review we focus on the determination of phase diagrams by computer simulation with particular attention to the fluid-solid and solid-solid equilibria. The calculation of the free energy of solid phases using the Einstein crystal and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-14 C. Vega , E. Sanz , J. L. F. Abascal , E. G. Noya

We developed a deep generative model-based variational free energy approach to the equations of state of dense hydrogen. We employ a normalizing flow network to model the proton Boltzmann distribution and a fermionic neural network to model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-26 Hao Xie , Zi-Hang Li , Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Lei Wang

This article describes nonequilibrium techniques for the calculation of free energies of solids using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. These methods provide an alternative to standard equilibrium thermodynamic integration methods and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-13 Rodrigo Freitas , Mark Asta , Maurice de Koning

Simulating mobile liquid-gas interfaces with the free-surface lattice Boltzmann method (FSLBM) requires frequent re-initialization of fluid flow information in computational cells that convert from gas to liquid. The corresponding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 Christoph Schwarzmeier , Ulrich Rüde

This report details an approach to improve the accuracy and precision of free energy difference estimates using thermodynamic integration data (slope of the free energy with respect to the switching variable lambda) and its application to…

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Different computational techniques in combination with molecular dynamics computer simulation are used to to determine the wall-liquid and the wall-crystal interfacial free energies of a modified Lennard-Jones (LJ) system in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ronald Benjamin , Jürgen Horbach

We report microscopic calculations of free energies and entropies for intramolecular electron transfer reactions. The calculation algorithm combines the atomistic geometry and charge distribution of a molecular solute obtained from quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anatoli A. Milischuk , Dmitry V. Matyushov , Marshall D. Newton

Direct numerical simulation of liquid-gas-solid flows is uncommon due to the considerable computational cost. As the grid spacing is determined by the smallest involved length scale, large grid sizes become necessary -- in particular if the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Simon Bogner , Jens Harting , Ulrich Rüde

An iterative scheme can be used to find a steady-state solution to the Boltzmann equation, however, it is very slow to converge in the near-continuum flow regime. In this paper, a synthetic iterative scheme is developed to speed up the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Lei Wu , Jun Zhang , Haihu Liu , Yonghao Zhang , Jason Reese

To contrast different generators for flow equations for Hamiltonians and to discuss the dependence of physical quantities on unitarily equivalent, but effectively different initial Hamiltonians, a numerically solvable model is considered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Stauber , A. Mielke