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We develop a formulation for molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms in the recently proposed generalized ensemble that is based on a physically motivated realisation of Tsallis weights. The effectiveness of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Frank Eisenmenger , Yuko Okamoto

A detailed description is provided of a new Worm Algorithm, enabling the accurate computation of thermodynamic properties of quantum many-body systems in continuous space, at finite temperature. The algorithm is formulated within the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Boninsegni , N. V. Prokof'ev , B. V. Svistunov

Path integral Monte Carlo approach is used to study the coupled quantum dynamics of the electron and nuclei in hydrogen molecule ion. The coupling effects are demonstrated by comparing differences in adiabatic Born--Oppenheimer and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-12-29 I. Kylänpää , M. Leino , T. T. Rantala

Monte Carlo simulations using entropic sampling to estimate the number of configurations of a given energy are a valuable alternative to traditional methods. We introduce {\it tomographic} entropic sampling, a scheme which uses multiple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ronald Dickman , A. G. Cunha-Netto

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a powerful tool for Bayesian statistical inference due to its potential to rapidly explore high dimensional state space, avoiding the random walk behavior typical of many Markov Chain Monte Carlo samplers.…

Fermionic path integral Monte Carlo simulations have been applied to study the equilibrium properties of the hydrogen and deuterium in the density and temperature range of 1.6 < rs < 14.0 and 5000K < T < 167000K. We use this technique to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Burkhard Militzer , William Magro , David Ceperley

We propose an algorithm for molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations that uses an interpolation procedure to estimate potential energy values from energies and gradients evaluated previously at points of a simplicial mesh. We chose an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Konstantin Karandashev , Jiri Vanicek

The macroscopic quantizations of matter into macro-atoms and radiant and thermal energies into r- and k-energy packets initiated in Paper I is completed with the definition of transition probabilities governing energy flows to and from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. B. Lucy

In this note, we present an efficient algorithm to sample directly the self-energy in the framework of the Connected Determinant technique. The introduction of the formalism of many-variable formal power series is essential to the proof,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Riccardo Rossi

In this work we introduce a geometric integrator for molecular dynamics simulations of physical systems in the canonical ensemble. In particular, we consider the equations arising from the so-called density dynamics algorithm with any…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Diego Tapias , David P. Sanders , Alessandro Bravetti

Many biochemical systems appearing in applications have a multiscale structure so that they converge to piecewise deterministic Markov processes in a thermodynamic limit. The statistics of the piecewise deterministic process can be obtained…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Ethan Levien , Paul C. Bressloff

An analytical method to compute thermodynamic properties of a given Hamiltonian system is proposed. This method combines ideas of both dynamical systems and ensemble approaches to thermodynamics, providing de facto a possible alternative to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xavier Leoncini , Alberto D. Verga

With the path integral approach, the thermal average in a multi-electronic-state quantum systems can be approximated by the ring polymer representation on an extended configuration space, where the additional degrees of freedom are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Xiaoyu Lei , Zhennan Zhou

We present a method to sample reactive pathways via biased molecular dynamics simulations in trajectory space. We show that the use of enhanced sampling techniques enables unconstrained exploration of multiple reaction routes. Time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Davide Mandelli , Barak Hirshberg , Michele Parrinello

The use of random sampling in decision-making and control has become popular with the ease of access to graphic processing units that can generate and calculate multiple random trajectories for real-time robotic applications. In contrast to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hyung-Jin Yoon , Chuyuan Tao , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros Voulgaris

Constant potential method molecular dynamics simulation (CPM MD) enables the accurate modelling of atomistic electrode charges when studying the electrode-electrolyte interface at the nanoscale. Here we extend the theoretical framework of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-26 Shern Ren Tee , Debra J. Searles

We demonstrate that the multicanonical approach is not restricted to Monte Carlo simulations, but can also be applied to simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms. The effectiveness of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto , Frank Eisenmenger

In this work the path integral formulation for rigid rotors, proposed by M\"user and Berne [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 2638 (1996)], is described in detail. It is shown how this formulation can be used to perform Monte Carlo simulations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-08 Eva G. Noya , Luis M. Sesé , Rafael Ramírez , Carl McBride , Maria M. Conde , Carlos Vega

Fractionation of isotopes among distinct molecules or phases is a quantum effect which is often exploited to obtain insights on reaction mechanisms, biochemical, geochemical and atmospheric phenomena. Accurate evaluation of isotope ratios…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bingqing Cheng , Michele Ceriotti

We explore the recently introduced $\eta$-ensemble approach to compute the free energy directly from \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations [T.~Dornheim \emph{et al.}, arXiv:2407.01044] and apply it to the archetypal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Tobias Dornheim , Panagiotis Tolias , Zhandos Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger