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most citedEnhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

357 citations

45 papers

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

Error estimates and variance reduction for nonequilibrium stochastic dynamics

Gabriel Stoltz

Equilibrium properties in statistical physics are obtained by computing averages with respect to Boltzmann-Gibbs measures, sampled in practice using ergodic dynamics such as the La…

math.AP2022★ 1 cited

About the structural stability of Maxwell fluids: convergence toward elastodynamics

Sébastien Boyaval

Maxwell's models for viscoelastic flows are famous for their potential to unify elastic motions of solids with viscous motions of liquids in the continuum mechanics perspective. Bu…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 18 cited

Frequency and field-dependent response of confined electrolytes from Brownian dynamics simulations

Thê Hoang Ngoc Minh, Gabriel Stoltz, Benjamin Rotenberg

Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we investigate the effects of confinement, adsorption on surfaces and ion-ion interactions on the response of confined electrolyte solutions to…

math.NA2022★ 3 cited

Non-intrusive implementation of a wide variety of Multiscale Finite Element Methods

Rutger A. Biezemans, Claude Le Bris, Frédéric Legoll +1

Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEMs) are now well-established finite element type approaches dedicated to multiscale problems. They first compute local, oscillatory, problem-…

math.NA2022★ 6 cited

Numerical stability and efficiency of response property calculations in density functional theory

Eric Cancès, Michael F. Herbst, Gaspard Kemlin +2

Response calculations in density functional theory aim at computing the change in ground-state density induced by an external perturbation. At finite temperature these are usually…

math.NA2022

On basis set optimisation in quantum chemistry

Eric Cancès, Geneviève Dusson, Gaspard Kemlin +1

In this article, we propose general criteria to construct optimal atomic centered basis sets in quantum chemistry. We focus in particular on two criteria, one based on the ground-s…

math.PR2022★ 1 cited

Estimation of statistics of transitions and Hill relation for Langevin dynamics

Tony Lelièvre, Mouad Ramil, Julien Reygner

In molecular dynamics, statistics of transitions, such as the mean transition time, are macroscopic observables which provide important dynamical information on the underlying micr…

math.NA2022★ 2 cited

A priori error analysis of linear and nonlinear periodic Schr{ö}dinger equations with analytic potentials

Eric Cancès, Gaspard Kemlin, Antoine Levitt

This paper is concerned with the numerical analysis of linear and nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equations with analytic potentials. While the regularity of the potential (and the source…

math.NA2022★ 5 cited

Non-intrusive implementation of Multiscale Finite Element Methods: an illustrative example

Rutger A. Biezemans, Claude Le Bris, Frederic Legoll +1

Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEM) are finite element type approaches dedicated to multiscale problems. They first compute local, oscillatory, problem-dependent basis functi…

math.NA2022★ 2 cited

Tensor approximation of the self-diffusion matrix of tagged particle processes

Jad Dabaghi, Virginie Ehrlacher, Christoph Strössner

The objective of this paper is to investigate a new numerical method for the approximation of the self-diffusion matrix of a tagged particle process defined on a grid. While standa…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 357 cited

Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

Jérôme Hénin, Tony Lelièvre, Michael R. Shirts +2

Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the configuration…

stat.CO2021★ 8 cited

Optimal friction matrix for underdamped Langevin sampling

Martin Chak, Nikolas Kantas, Tony Lelièvre +1

A systematic procedure for optimising the friction coefficient in underdamped Langevin dynamics as a sampling tool is given by taking the gradient of the associated asymptotic vari…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 9 cited

A robust and efficient line search for self-consistent field iterations

Michael F. Herbst, Antoine Levitt

We propose a novel adaptive damping algorithm for the self-consistent field (SCF) iterations of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory, using a backtracking line search to automatical…

math.PR2021★ 5 cited

Uniform minorization condition and convergence bounds for discretizations of kinetic Langevin dynamics

Alain Durmus, Aurélien Enfroy, Éric Moulines +1

We study the convergence in total variation and -norm of discretization schemes of the underdamped Langevin dynamics. Such algorithms are very popular and commonly used in molec…

math.PR2021★ 14 cited

Weighted -contractivity of Langevin dynamics with singular potentials

Evan Camrud, David P. Herzog, Gabriel Stoltz +1

Convergence to equilibrium of underdamped Langevin dynamics is studied under general assumptions on the potential allowing for singularities. By modifying the direct approach t…

math-ph2021★ 19 cited

Building Kohn-Sham potentials for ground and excited states

Louis Garrigue

We analyze the inverse problem of Density Functional Theory using a regularized variational method. First, we show that given and a target density , there exist potentials h…

math-ph2020★ 13 cited

Scaling limits for the generalized Langevin equation

G. A. Pavliotis, G. Stoltz, U. Vaes

In this paper, we study the diffusive limit of solutions to the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) in a periodic potential. Under the assumption of quasi-Markovianity, we obtain s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 4 cited

Thermo-mechanical transport in rotor chains

Alessandra Iacobucci, Stefano Olla, Gabriel Stoltz

We study the macroscopic profiles of temperature and angular momentum in the stationary state of chains of rotors under a thermo-mechanical forcing applied at the boundaries. These…

math.NA2020★ 2 cited

Convergence analysis of direct minimization and self-consistent iterations

Eric Cancès, Gaspard Kemlin, Antoine Levitt

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of subspace optimization problems, consisting of minimizing a smooth functional over the set of orthogonal projectors of fixed…

math.NA2020★ 6 cited

Multiple projection MCMC algorithms on submanifolds

Tony Lelièvre, Gabriel Stoltz, Wei Zhang

We propose new Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms to sample probability distributions on submanifolds, which generalize previous methods by allowing the use of set-valued maps in…

stat.ML2019

Outliers Detection in Networks with Missing Links

Solenne Gaucher, Olga Klopp, Geneviève Robin

Outliers arise in networks due to different reasons such as fraudulent behavior of malicious users or default in measurement instruments and can significantly impair network analys…

math.NA2019

Viscoelastic flows with conservation laws

Sébastien Boyaval

We propose in this work the first symmetric hyperbolic system of conservation laws to describe viscoelastic flows of Maxwell fluids, i.e. fluidswith memory that are characterized b…

math.PR2019★ 6 cited

Coulomb gases under constraint: some theoretical and numerical results

Djalil Chafaï, Grégoire Ferré, Gabriel Stoltz

We consider Coulomb gas models for which the empirical measure typically concentrates, when the number of particles becomes large, on an equilibrium measure minimizing an electrost…

math.AP2018

Exit event from a metastable state and Eyring-Kramers law for the overdamped Langevin dynamics

Tony Lelièvre, Dorian Le Peutrec, Boris Nectoux

In molecular dynamics, several algorithms have been designed over the past few years to accelerate the exit event from a metastable region of the configuration space. Some of them…