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Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) play an essential role in many atomistic systems, yet their explicit inclusion in molecular simulations remains challenging. Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provides a rigorous framework for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ádám Madarász , Bence Balázs Mészáros , János Daru

It is now established that nuclear quantum motion plays an important role in determining water's hydrogen bonding, structure, and dynamics. Such effects are important to include in density functional theory (DFT) based molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Daniel C. Elton , Michelle Fritz , M. -V. Fernández-Serra

The quantum nature of nuclei plays an important role in the accurate modelling of light atoms such as hydrogen, but it is often neglected in simulations due to the high computational overhead involved. It has recently been shown that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Michele Ceriotti , David E. Manolopoulos , Michele Parrinello

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

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a means to enhance the accuracy of biomolecular simulations. However, their application is constrained by the significant computational cost arising from the vast number of parameters compared to…

This paper introduces a random-batch molecular dynamics (RBMD) package for fast simulations of particle systems at the nano/micro scale. Different from existing packages, the RBMD uses random batch methods for nonbonded interactions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Weihang Gao , Teng Zhao , Yongfa Guo , Jiuyang Liang , Huan Liu , Maoying Luo , Zedong Luo , Wei Qin , Yichao Wang , Qi Zhou , Shi Jin , Zhenli Xu

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

Building on Paper I of this series, which introduced path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) estimators for the derivative of the potential of mean force (PMF), we propose two path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) integrators that can make use…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Kevin P. Bishop , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

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

Langevin dynamics sampling suffers from extremely low generation speed, fundamentally limited by numerous fine-grained iterations to converge to the target distribution. We introduce PID-controlled Langevin Dynamics (PIDLD), a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hongyi Chen , Jianhai Shu , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang

With the rapid advancement of computational techniques, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as powerful tools in biomedical research, enabling in-depth investigations of biological systems at the atomic level. Among the diverse…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-05 Reza Bozorgpour

Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) is used to directly simulate the dynamics of an excess electron in a supercritical fluid over a broad range of densities. The accuracy of the RPMD model is tested against numerically exact path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-27 Thomas F. Miller

For 35 years, {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD) has been the method of choice for modeling complex atomistic phenomena from first principles. However, most AIMD applications are limited by computational cost to systems with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Weile Jia , Han Wang , Mohan Chen , Denghui Lu , Lin Lin , Roberto Car , Weinan E , Linfeng Zhang

Bulk-bitwise processing-in-memory (PIM), where large bitwise operations are performed in parallel by the memory array itself, is an emerging form of computation with the potential to mitigate the memory wall problem. This paper examines the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ben Perach , Ronny Ronen , Benny Kimelfeld , Shahar Kvatinsky

The contribution of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) to the properties of various hydrogen-bound systems, including biomolecules, is increasingly recognized. Despite the development of many acceleration techniques, the computational overhead…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Iryna Zaporozhets , Félix Musil , Venkat Kapil , Cecilia Clementi

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

It is well known that the number of particles should be scaled up to enable industrial scale simulation. The calculations are more computationally intensive when the motion of the surrounding fluid is considered. Besides the advances in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Hao Zhang , F. Xavier Trias , Assensi Oliva , Dongmin Yang , Yuanqiang Tan , Shi Shu , Yong Sheng

In this paper, we propose a cost-reduced method for finite-temperature molecular dynamics on a near-term quantum computer, Quantum Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (QCPMD). One of the most promising applications of near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Kohdai Kuroiwa , Takahiro Ohkuma , Hirokazu Sato , Ryosuke Imai

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

Classical and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are used to study alpha-quartz and beta-quartz in a large range of temperatures at zero external stress. PIMD account for quantum fluctuations of atomic vibrations, which can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin H. Muser