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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 154, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0036747
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- National Science Foundation [1934725]
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1934725] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Encoding complex energy landscape features is challenging, with chemists focusing on minima and barriers. Tools like sublevelset persistent homology are used to explore the topology of these landscapes and make comparisons between analytical and simulated data. This work lays the foundation for future studies on quantifying differences in topological features of high-dimensional energy landscapes.
Encoding the complex features of an energy landscape is a challenging task, and often, chemists pursue the most salient features (minima and barriers) along a highly reduced space, i.e., two- or three-dimensions. Even though disconnectivity graphs or merge trees summarize the connectivity of the local minima of an energy landscape via the lowest-barrier pathways, there is much information to be gained by also considering the topology of each connected component at different energy thresholds (or sublevelsets). We propose sublevelset persistent homology as an appropriate tool for this purpose. Our computations on the configuration phase space of n-alkanes from butane to octane allow us to conjecture, and then prove, a complete characterization of the sublevelset persistent homology of the alkane CmH2m+2 Potential Energy Landscapes (PELs), for all m, in all homological dimensions. We further compare both the analytical configurational PELs and sampled data from molecular dynamics simulation using the united and all-atom descriptions of the intramolecular interactions. In turn, this supports the application of distance metrics to quantify sampling fidelity and lays the foundation for future work regarding new metrics that quantify differences between the topological features of high-dimensional energy landscapes.
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