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We propose a microscopic simulation for quark many-body system based on molecular dynamics. Using color confinement and one-gluon exchange potentials together with the meson exchange potentials between quarks, we construct nucleons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Toshiki Maruyama , Tetsuo Hatsuda

This computational experiment demonstrates that chain melting in lipids is a molecular process. BOMD is certainly the best method to reproduce such dynamics properties, since the electronic contributions to the various molecular structures…

Conformational dynamics is crucial for ribonucleic acid (RNA) function. Techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, cryo-electron microscopy, small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering, chemical probing, single-molecule F\"orster resonance…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-31 Mattia Bernetti , Giovanni Bussi

A microfluidic device is constructed from PDMS with a single channel having a short section that is a thin flexible membrane, in order to investigate the complex fluid-structure interaction that arises between a flowing fluid and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-03 Debadi Chakraborty , J. Ravi Prakash , Leslie Yeo , James Friend

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is applied to the condensation process of supersaturated vapors of methane, ethane, and carbon dioxide. Simulations of systems with up to a million particles were conducted with a massively parallel MD…

In this work, we explore the dynamics of active entangled chains using molecular dynamics simulations of a modified Kremer-Grest model. The active chains are diluted in a mesh of very long passive linear chains, to avoid constraint release…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-01 Andres R. Tejedor , Raquel Carracedo , Jorge Ramírez

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to calculate transport coefficients in a two-component plasma interacting through a repulsive Coulomb potential. The thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, electrothermal coefficient,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Briggs Damman , Jarett LeVan , Scott Baalrud

Diffusive molecular dynamics is a novel model for materials with atomistic resolution that can reach diffusive time scales. The main ideas of diffusive molecular dynamics are to first minimize an approximate variational Gaussian free energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Gideon Simpson , Mitchell Luskin , David J. Srolovitz

Hard spheres are arguably one of the most fundamental model systems in soft matter physics, and hence a common topic of simulation studies. Event-driven simulation methods provide an efficient method for studying the phase behavior and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Frank Smallenburg

We investigate the behavior of colloidal suspensions with different volume fractions confined between parallel walls under a range of steady shears. We model the particles using molecular dynamics (MD) with full hydrodynamic interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-18 Frances E. Mackay , Kyle Pastor , Mikko Karttunen , Colin Denniston

Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However, all of the simulation methods come with limitations. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-04 Edward R. Smith , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Massively-parallel molecular dynamics simulation is applied to systems containing electrolytes, vapour-liquid interfaces, and biomolecules in contact with water-oil interfaces. Novel molecular models of alkali halide salts are presented and…

Multiscale and inhomogeneous molecular systems are challenging topics in the field of molecular simulation. In particular, modeling biological systems in the context of multiscale simulations and exploring material properties are driving a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Horacio V. Guzman , Christoph Junghans , Kurt Kremer , Torsten Stuehn

We propose a multiscale computational method for thin-layer flows of complex fluids, termed the synchronized molecular dynamics (SMD) method, which directly couples local molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with a macroscopic lubrication…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Shugo Yasuda , Kotaro Oda , Fumito Muragaki , Yuta Taketa , Masashi Iwayama , Tomohide Ina

Metastable condensed matter typically fluctuates about local energy minima at the femtosecond time scale before transitioning between local minima after nanoseconds or microseconds. This vast scale separation limits the applicability of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Brittan A Farmer , Mitchell Luskin , Petr Plecháč , Gideon Simpson

Using molecular dynamics simulations and integral equations (Rogers-Young, Percus-Yevick and hypernetted chain closures) we investigate the thermodynamic of particles interacting with continuous core-softened intermolecular potential.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan B. de Oliveira , Paulo A. Netz , Thiago Colla , Marcia C. Barbosa

We present the results of molecular dynamics computer simulations of a binary Lennard-Jones liquid confined between two parallel rough walls. These walls are realized by frozen amorphous configurations of the same liquid and therefore the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Peter Scheidler , Walter Kob , Kurt Binder

The interplay of slow dynamics and thermodynamic features of dense liquids is studied by examinining how the glass transition changes depending on the presence or absence of Lennard-Jones-like attractions. Quite different thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Th. Voigtmann

In this manuscript, we undertake an examination of a classical plasma deployed on two finite co-planar surfaces: a circular region $\Omega_{in}$ into an annular region $\Omega_{out}$ with a gap in between. It is studied both from the point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Robert Salazar , Cristian Cobos , Diego Jaramillo , Camilo Bayona