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MOLECULAR SIMULATION
卷 28, 期 1-2, 页码 91-112出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927020211977
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molecular dynamics; energy profiles; AFED; isomerization; harmonic oscillator
A new molecular dynamics method for calculating free energy profiles for rare events is presented. The new method is based on the creation of an adiabatic separation between the reaction coordinate subspace and the remaining degrees of freedom within a molecular dynamics run. This is achieved by associating with the reaction coordinate(s) a high temperature and large mass, thereby allowing the activated process to occur while permitting the remaining degrees of freedom to respond adiabatically. In this limit, by applying a formal multiple time scale Liouville operator factorization, it can be rigorously shown that the free energy profiles are obtained directly from the probability distribution of the reaction coordinate subspace and, therefore, require no postprocessing of the output data. The new method is applied to a variety of model problems and its performance tested against free energy calculations using the bluemoon ensemble approach. The comparison shows that free energy profiles can be calculated with greater ease and efficiency using the new method.
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