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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011007
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- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at the University of California, Berkeley [QB3]
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Science Foundation [OCI-1053575]
Common algorithms for computationally simulating Langevin dynamics must discretize the stochastic differential equations of motion. These resulting finite-time-step integrators necessarily have several practical issues in common: Microscopic reversibility is violated, the sampled stationary distribution differs from the desired equilibrium distribution, and the work accumulated in nonequilibrium simulations is not directly usable in estimators based on nonequilibrium work theorems. Here, we show that, even with a time-independent Hamiltonian, finite-time-step Langevin integrators can be thought of as a driven, nonequilibrium physical process. Once an appropriate worklike quantity is defined-here called the shadow work-recently developed nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems can be used to measure or correct for the errors introduced by the use of finite time steps. In particular, we demonstrate that amending estimators based on nonequilibrium work theorems to include this shadow work removes the time-step-dependent error from estimates of free energies. We also quantify, for the first time, the magnitude of deviations between the sampled stationary distribution and the desired equilibrium distribution for equilibrium Langevin simulations of solvated systems of varying sizes. While these deviations can be large, they can be eliminated altogether by Metropolization or greatly diminished by small reductions in the time step. Through this connection with driven processes, further developments in nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems can provide additional analytical tools for dealing with errors in finite-time-step integrators. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011007
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