A mapping space Odyssey: characterising the statistical and metric properties of reduced representations of macromolecules
arXiv:2106.08223 · doi:10.1140/epjb/s10051-021-00205-9
Abstract
Simplified representations of macromolecules help in rationalising and understanding the outcome of atomistic simulations, and serve to the construction of effective, coarse-grained models. The number and distribution of coarse-grained sites bears a strict relation with the amount of information conveyed by the representation and the accuracy of the associated effective model; in this work, we investigate this relationship from the very basics: specifically, we propose a rigorous notion of scalar product among mappings, which implies a distance and a metric space of simplified representations. Making use of a Wang-Landau enhanced sampling algorithm, we exhaustively explore the space of mappings, quantifying their qualitative features in terms of their squared norm and relating them with thermodynamical properties of the underlying macromolecule. A one-to-one correspondence with an interacting lattice gas on a finite volume leads to the emergence of discontinuous phase transitions in mapping space that mark the boundaries between qualitatively different representations of the same molecule.
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