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20152024
most citedRethinking Metadynamics: from bias potentials to probability distributions

399 citations · 921 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.ed-ph2024★ 2 cited

PLUMED Tutorials: a collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystem

Gareth A. Tribello, Massimiliano Bonomi, Giovanni Bussi +60

In computational physics, chemistry, and biology, the implementation of new techniques in a shared and open source software lowers barriers to entry and promotes rapid scientific p…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 13 cited

Advanced simulations with PLUMED: OPES and Machine Learning Collective Variables

Enrico Trizio, Andrea Rizzi, Pablo M. Piaggi +2

Many biological processes occur on time scales longer than those accessible to molecular dynamics simulations. Identifying collective variables (CVs) and introducing an external po…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

Rigid Body Flows for Sampling Molecular Crystal Structures

Jonas Köhler, Michele Invernizzi, Pim de Haan +1

Normalizing flows (NF) are a class of powerful generative models that have gained popularity in recent years due to their ability to model complex distributions with high flexibili…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 35 cited

Skipping the Replica Exchange Ladder with Normalizing Flows

Michele Invernizzi, Andreas Krämer, Cecilia Clementi +1

We combine replica exchange (parallel tempering) with normalizing flows, a class of deep generative models. These two sampling strategies complement each other, resulting in an eff…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 84 cited

Rare Event Kinetics from Adaptive Bias Enhanced Sampling

Dhiman Ray, Narjes Ansari, Valerio Rizzi +2

We introduce a novel enhanced sampling approach named OPES flooding for calculating the kinetics of rare events from atomistic molecular dynamics simulation. This method is derived…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 3 cited

Exploration vs Convergence Speed in Adaptive-bias Enhanced Sampling

Michele Invernizzi, Michele Parrinello

In adaptive-bias enhanced sampling methods, a bias potential is added to the system to drive transitions between metastable states. The bias potential is a function of a few collec…

physics.comp-ph2021

OPES: On-the-fly Probability Enhanced Sampling Method

Michele Invernizzi

Molecular simulations are playing an ever increasing role, finding applications in fields as varied as physics, chemistry, biology and material science. However, many phenomena of…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 45 cited

Collective Variables for the Study of Crystallization

Tarak Karmakar, Michele Invernizzi, Valerio Rizzi +1

The phenomenon of solidification of a substance from its liquid phase is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance, and atomistic simulations can provide precious inform…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 51 cited

Attenuating the fermion sign problem in path integral Monte Carlo simulations using the Bogoliubov inequality and thermodynamic integration

Tobias Dornheim, Michele Invernizzi, Jan Vorberger +1

Accurate thermodynamic simulations of correlated fermions using path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methods are of paramount importance for many applications such as the description o…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 153 cited

A Unified Approach to Enhanced Sampling

Michele Invernizzi, Pablo Miguel Piaggi, Michele Parrinello

The sampling problem lies at the heart of atomistic simulations and over the years many different enhanced sampling methods have been suggested towards its solution. These methods…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 53 cited

Path Integral Molecular Dynamics for Fermions: Alleviating the Sign Problem with the Bogoliubov Inequality

Barak Hirshberg, Michele Invernizzi, Michele Parrinello

We present a method for performing path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations for fermions and address its sign problem. PIMD simulations are widely used for studying many…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 399 cited

Rethinking Metadynamics: from bias potentials to probability distributions

Michele Invernizzi, Michele Parrinello

Metadynamics is an enhanced sampling method of great popularity, based on the on-the-fly construction of a bias potential that is function of a selected number of collective variab…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 44 cited

Making the best of a bad situation: a multiscale approach to free energy calculation

Michele Invernizzi, Michele Parrinello

Many enhanced sampling techniques rely on the identification of a number of collective variables that describe all the slow modes of the system. By constructing a bias potential in…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 29 cited

Enhanced sampling of transition states

Jayashrita Debnath, Michele Invernizzi, Michele Parrinello

The free energy landscapes of several fundamental processes are characterized by high barriers separating long-lived metastable states. In order to explore these type of landscapes…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Superlubric-Pinned Transition in Sliding Incommensurate Colloidal Monolayers

Davide Mandelli, Andrea Vanossi, Michele Invernizzi +3

Two-dimensional (2D) crystalline colloidal monolayers sliding over a laser-induced optical lattice recently emerged as a new tool for the study of friction between ideal crystal su…