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cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 3 cited

Systematic construction of asymptotic quantum many-body scar states and their relation to supersymmetric quantum mechanics

Masaya Kunimi, Yusuke Kato, Hosho Katsura

We develop a systematic method for constructing asymptotic quantum many-body scar (AQMBS) states. While AQMBS states are closely related to quantum many-body scar (QMBS) states, th…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Anisotropy-induced spin parity effects

Shuntaro Sumita, Akihiro Tanaka, Yusuke Kato

Spin parity effects refer to those special situations where a dichotomy in the physical behavior of a system arises, solely depending on whether the relevant spin quantum number is…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 1 cited

Structural transition induced by a local chemical/mechanical perturbation in biomolecules

Fumio Hirata

Structural transition induced by a local conformational change in biomolecules is formulated based on the generalized Langevin theory for the structural fluctuation of a molecule i…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 5 cited

Does the second critical-point of water really exist in nature?

Fumio Hirata

In the past decade, a literary phrase "No man's land" has been flooded in the scientific papers. The expression is used to describe a meta-stable region in the phase-diagram that c…

cond-mat.stat-mech2013★ 4 cited

Operational derivation of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with Maxwell's demon model

Akio Hosoya, Koji Maruyama, Yutaka Shikano

The resolution of the Maxwell's demon paradox linked thermodynamics with information theory through information erasure principle. By considering a demon endowed with a Turing-mach…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012

Probing a non-biaxial behavior of infinitely thin hard platelets

Hitomi Nomura, Tomonori Koda, Akihiro Nishioka +1

We give a criterion to test a non-biaxial behavior of infinitely thin hard platelets of symmetry based upon the components of three order parameter tensors. We investigate…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 6 cited

Amino-acid-dependent main-chain torsion-energy terms for protein systems

Yoshitake Sakae, Yuko Okamoto

Many commonly used force fields for protein systems such as AMBER, CHARMM, GROMACS, OPLS, and ECEPP have amino-acid-independent force-field parameters of main-chain torsion-energy…

cond-mat.stat-mech2010★ 4 cited

Representation of the nonequilibrium steady-state distribution function for sheared granular systems

Song-Ho Chong, Michio Otsuki, Hisao Hayakawa

We derive the representation of the nonequilibrium steady-state distribution function which is expressed in terms of the excess free energy production. This representation resemble…

cond-mat.stat-mech2009★ 3 cited

Nonequilibrium liquid theory for sheared granular liquids

Hisao Hayakawa, Song-Ho Chong, Michio Otsuki

A noneqilibrium liquid theory for uniformly sheared granular liquids is developed starting from the SLLOD Liouville equation. We derive a generalized Green-Kubo formula and also de…

cond-mat.stat-mech2006★ 9 cited

Statistical-mechanical theory of ultrasonic absorption in molecular liquids

A. E. Kobryn, F. Hirata

We present results of theoretical description of ultrasonic phenomena in molecular liquids. In particular, we are interested in the development of microscopical, i.e., statistical-…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 27 cited

Prediction of transmembrane helix configurations by replica-exchange simulations

Hironori Kokubo, Yuko Okamoto

We propose a method for predicting helical membrane protein structures by computer simulations. Our method consists of two parts. In the first part, amino-acid sequences of the tra…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 18 cited

Molecular dynamics of C-peptide of ribonuclease A studied by replica-exchange Monte Carlo method and diffusion theory

Giovanni La Penna, Ayori Mitsutake, Masato Masuya +1

Generalized-ensemble algorithm and diffusion theory have been combined in order to compute the dynamical properties monitored by nuclear magnetic resonance experiments from efficie…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 32 cited

Optimization of protein force-field parameters with the Protein Data Bank

Yoshitake Sakae, Yuko Okamoto

We propose a novel method to optimize existing force-field parameters for protein systems. The method consists of minimizing the summation of the square of the force acting on each…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003

Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms: Enhanced Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Y. Okamoto

In complex systems with many degrees of freedom such as spin glass and biomolecular systems, conventional simulations in canonical ensemble suffer from the quasi-ergodicity problem…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 5 cited

Metropolis Algorithms in Generalized Ensemble

Yuko Okamoto

In complex systems such as spin systems and protein systems, conventional simulations in the canonical ensemble will get trapped in states of energy local minima. We employ the gen…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 60 cited

Monte Carlo Simulations in Multibaric-Multithermal Ensemble

H. Okumura, Y. Okamoto

We propose a new generalized-ensemble algorithm, which we refer to as the multibaric-multithermal Monte Carlo method. The multibaric-multithermal Monte Carlo simulations perform ra…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 52 cited

Multi-Overlap Simulations for Transitions between Reference Configurations

B. A. Berg, H. Noguchi, Y. Okamoto

We introduce a new procedure to construct weight factors, which flatten the probability density of the overlap with respect to some pre-defined reference configuration. This allows…

cond-mat.stat-mech2002

Interplay between the repulsive and attractive interaction and the spacial dimensionality of an excess electron in a simple fluid

Ashok Sethia, Eric R. Bittner, Fumio Hirata

The behavior of an excess electron in a one, two and three dimensional classical liquid has been studied with the aid of Chandler, Singh and Richardson (CSR) theory [J. Chem. Phys.…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 10 cited

Generalized-ensemble simulations of spin systems and protein systems

T. Nagasima, Y. Sugita, A. Mitsutake +1

In complex systems such as spin systems and protein systems, conventional simulations in the canonical ensemble will get trapped in states of energy local minima. We employ the gen…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 3 cited

Free-Energy Calculations in Protein Folding by Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms

Y. Sugita, Y. Okamoto

We review uses of the generalized-ensemble algorithms for free-energy calculations in protein folding. Two of the well-known methods are multicanonical algorithm and replica-exchan…

cond-mat.stat-mech2000

Generalized-Ensemble Algorithms for Molecular Simulations of Biopolymers

Ayori Mitsutake, Yuji Sugita, Yuko Okamoto

In complex systems with many degrees of freedom such as peptides and proteins there exist a huge number of local-minimum-energy states. Conventional simulations in the canonical en…

cond-mat.stat-mech2000★ 81 cited

Replica-Exchange Simulated Tempering Method for Simulations of Frustrated Systems

A. Mitsutake, Y. Okamoto

We propose a new method for the determination of the weight factor for the simulated tempering method. In this method a short replica-exchange simulation is performed and the simul…

cond-mat.stat-mech2000★ 829 cited

Multidimensional replica-exchange method for free-energy calculations

Yuji Sugita, Akio Kitao, Yuko Okamoto

We have developed a new simulation algorithm for free-energy calculations. The method is a multidimensional extension of the replica-exchange method. While pairs of replicas with d…

cond-mat.stat-mech2000★ 298 cited

Replica-exchange multicanonical algorithm and multicanonical replica-exchange method for simulating systems with rough energy landscape

Yuji Sugita, Yuko Okamoto

We propose two efficient algorithms for configurational sampling of systems with rough energy landscape. The first one is a new method for the determination of the multicanonical w…