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20172026
most citedTinker-HP : Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Large Complex Systems with Advanced Point Dipole Polarizable Force Fields using GPUs and Multi-GPUs systems

92 citations · 521 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

nucl-th2026

Fast Monte Carlo calculation of multiple scattering in resonant neutron capture

R. M. Djilkibaev

A fast Monte Carlo code has been developed to calculate multiple neutron scattering in a sample. Good agreement with an independent Monte Carlo calculation using SAMMY is obtained…

quant-ph2026

The Convergence Frontier: Integrating Machine Learning and High Performance Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Drug Discovery

Narjes Ansari, César Feniou, Nicolaï Gouraud +13

Integrating quantum mechanics into drug discovery marks a decisive shift from empirical trial-and-error toward quantitative precision. However, the prohibitive cost of ab initio mo…

physics.chem-ph2026

Faster Molecular Dynamics with Neural Network Potentials via Distilled Multiple Time-Stepping and Non-Conservative Forces

Nicolaï Gouraud, Côme Cattin, Thomas Plé +3

Following our previous work (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2026, 17, 5, 1288-1295), we propose the DMTS-NC approach, a distilled multi-time-step (DMTS) strategy using non-conservative (NC)…

physics.chem-ph2025

Dual-LAO for calculating fast and robust relative binding free energies of simple and complex transformations

Narjes Ansari, Félix Aviat, Jérôme Hénin +2

Relative Binding Free Energy (RBFE) calculations are a cornerstone of rational hit-to-lead and lead optimization in modern drug discovery. However, the high computational cost and…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Foundation Neural Network Models using Multiple Time-Step and Distillation

Côme Cattin, Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua +3

We present a distilled multi-time-step (DMTS) strategy to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using foundation neural network models. DMTS uses a dual-level neural network wh…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

Pushing the Accuracy Limit of Foundation Neural Network Models with Quantum Monte Carlo Forces and Path Integrals

Anouar Benali, Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua +18

We propose an end-to-end integrated strategy to produce highly accurate quantum chemistry (QC) synthetic datasets (energies and forces) aimed at deriving Foundation Machine Learnin…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 5 cited

Lambda-ABF-OPES: Faster Convergence with High Accuracy in Alchemical Free Energy Calculations

Narjes Ansari, Zhifeng Francis Jing, Antoine Gagelin +5

Predicting the binding affinity between small molecules and target macromolecules while combining both speed and accuracy, is a cornerstone of modern computational drug discovery w…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

The Q-AMOEBA (CF) Polarizable Potential

Nastasia Mauger, Thomas Plé, Louis Lagardère +2

We present Q-AMOEBA (CF), an enhanced version of the Q-AMOEBA polarizable model that integrates a geometry-dependent charge flux (CF) term while designed for an explicit treatment…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 3 cited

Velocity Jumps for Molecular Dynamics

Nicolaï Gouraud, Louis Lagardère, Olivier Adjoua +3

We introduce the Velocity Jumps approach, denoted as JUMP, a new class of Molecular dynamics integrators, replacing the Langevin dynamics by a hybrid model combining a classical La…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 16 cited

FeNNol: an Efficient and Flexible Library for Building Force-field-enhanced Neural Network Potentials

Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua, Louis Lagardère +1

Neural network interatomic potentials (NNPs) have recently proven to be powerful tools to accurately model complex molecular systems while bypassing the high numerical cost of ab-i…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 23 cited

Lambda-ABF: Simplified, Portable, Accurate and Cost-effective Alchemical Free Energy Computations

Louis Lagardère, Lise Maurin, Olivier Adjoua +4

We introduce an efficient and robust method to compute alchemical free energy differences, resulting from the application of multiple walker Adaptive Biasing Force (ABF) in conjunc…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 9 cited

Smooth Particle Mesh Ewald-integrated stochastic Lanczos Many-body Dispersion algorithm

Pier P. Poier, Louis Lagardère, Jean-Philip Piquemal

We derive and implement an alternative formulation of the Stochastic Lanczos algorithm to be employed in connection with the Many-Body Dispersion model (MBD). Indeed, this formulat…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 46 cited

Force-Field-Enhanced Neural Network Interactions: from Local Equivariant Embedding to Atom-in-Molecule properties and long-range effects

Thomas Plé, Louis Lagardère, Jean-Philip Piquemal

We introduce FENNIX (Force-Field-Enhanced Neural Network InteraXions), a hybrid approach between machine-learning and force-fields. We leverage state-of-the-art equivariant neural…

math.NA2022★ 11 cited

ANKH: A Generalized O(N) Interpolated Ewald Strategy for Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Igor Chollet, Louis Lagardère, Jean-Philip Piquemal

To evaluate electrostatics interactions, Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations rely on Particle Mesh Ewald (PME), an O(Nlog(N)) algorithm that uses Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) or,…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 29 cited

Routine Molecular Dynamics Simulations Including Nuclear Quantum Effects: from Force Fields to Machine Learning Potentials

Thomas Plé, Nastasia Mauger, Olivier Adjoua +4

We report the implementation of a multi-CPU and multi-GPU massively parallel platform dedicated to the explicit inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) in the Tinker-HP molecul…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 11 cited

Generalized Many-Body Dispersion Correction through Random-phase Approximation for Chemically Accurate Density Functional Theory

Pier Paolo Poier, Louis Lagardère, Jean-Philip Piquemal

We extend our recently proposed Deep Learning-aided many-body dispersion (DNN-MBD) model to quadrupole polarizability (Q) terms using a generalized Random Phase Approximation (RPA)…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 47 cited

Scalable Hybrid Deep Neural Networks/Polarizable Potentials Biomolecular Simulations including long-range effects

Théo Jaffrelot Inizan, Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua +5

Deep-HP is a scalable extension of the \TinkerHP\ multi-GPUs molecular dynamics (MD) package enabling the use of Pytorch/TensorFlow Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) models. Deep-HP incr…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 18 cited

Improving Condensed Phase Water Dynamics with Explicit Nuclear Quantum Effects: the Polarizable Q-AMOEBA Force Field

Nastasia Mauger, Thomas Plé, Louis Lagardère +2

We introduce a new parametrization of the AMOEBA polarizable force field for water denoted Q-AMOEBA, for use in simulations that explicitly account for nuclear quantum effects (NQE…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 7 cited

Targeting the Major Groove of the Palindromic d(GGCGCC)2 Sequence by Oligopeptide Derivatives of Anthraquinone Intercalators

Krystel El Hage, Giovanni Ribaudo, Louis Lagardère +6

GC-rich sequences are recurring motifs in oncogenes and retroviruses, and could be targeted by non-covalent major-groove therapeutic ligands. We considered the palindromic sequence…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 25 cited

Accurate Deep Learning-aided Density-free Strategy for Many-Body Dispersion-corrected Density Functional Theory

Pier Paolo Poier, Théo Jaffrelot Inizan, Olivier Adjoua +2

Using a Deep Neuronal Network model (DNN) trained on the large ANI-1 data set of small organic molecules, we propose a transferable density-free many-body dispersion model (DNN-MBD…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 41 cited

Development of the Quantum Inspired SIBFA Many-Body Polarizable Force Field: Enabling Condensed Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Sehr Naseem-Khan, Louis Lagardère, Christophe Narth +4

We present the extension of the SIBFA (Sum of Interactions Between Fragments Ab initio Computed many-body polarizable force field to condensed phase Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulat…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 44 cited

Computationally driven discovery of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors: from design to experimental validation

L. El Khoury, Z. Jing, A. Cuzzolin +32

We report a fast-track computationally-driven discovery of new SARS-CoV2 Main Protease (M) inhibitors whose potency range from mM for initial non-covalent ligands to sub-$μ…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 32 cited

Nuclear Quantum Effects in liquid water at near classical computational cost using the adaptive Quantum Thermal Bath

Nastasia Mauger, Thomas Plé, Louis Lagardère +4

We demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of a recently introduced approach to account for nuclear quantum effects (NQE) in molecular simulations: the adaptive Quantum Thermal Bat…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 92 cited

Tinker-HP : Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Large Complex Systems with Advanced Point Dipole Polarizable Force Fields using GPUs and Multi-GPUs systems

Olivier Adjoua, Louis Lagardère, Luc-Henri Jolly +9

We present the extension of the Tinker-HP package (Lagardère et al., Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 956-972) to the use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards to accelerate molecular dynamic…