Stochastically accelerated molecular dynamics: Application to 1-D
β Scribed by D. West; S.B. Zhang
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 292 KB
- Volume
- 401-402
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
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β¦ Synopsis
In this work, we develop a method to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations by boosting the kinetic energy of an atom. Preliminary results have been obtained for several 1-D potentials and show very good agreement with direct simulations. Furthermore, the speed-up factors are promising, over 10 2 (with T ΒΌ 1000 K and E c ΒΌ 0.5 eV). The formalism presented here should be equally applicable to the 3-D case.
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