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Global free-energy landscapes as a smoothly joined collection of local maps
This repository contains the scripts that were used to run the calculations that present a new biasing technique, the Adaptive Topography of Landscape for Accelerated Sampling... -
Making the best of a bad situation: a multiscale approach to free energy calc...
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... -
Rethinking Metadynamics
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... -
Calculation of phase diagrams in the multithermal-multibaric ensemble
From the Ising model and the Lennard-Jones fluid to water and the iron-carbon system, phase diagrams are an indispensable tool to understand phase equilibria. Despite the effort... -
Naphthalene crystal shape prediction from molecular dynamics simulations
We used molecular dynamics simulations to predict the steady state crystal shape of naphthalene grown from ethanol solution. The simulations were performed at constant... -
Making the best of a bad situation: a multiscale approach to free energy calc...
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... -
Free-Energy Surface Prediction by Flying Gaussian Method
Molecular simulations are computationally expensive, especially in systems with multiple free energy minima. To address this problem many enhanced sampling techniques have been... -
Temperature Dependence of Homogeneous Nucleation in Ice
Ice nucleation is a process of great relevance in physics, chemistry, technology, and environmental sciences; much theoretical effort has been devoted to its understanding, but... -
Making the best of a bad situation: a multiscale approach to free energy calc...
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... -
Neural networks-based variationally enhanced sampling
Sampling complex free-energy surfaces is one of the main challenges of modern atomistic simulation methods. The presence of kinetic bottlenecks in such surfaces often renders a... -
Improving collective variables: The case of crystallization
Several enhanced sampling methods, such as umbrella sampling or metadynamics, rely on the identification of an appropriate set of collective variables. Recently two methods have... -
Making the best of a bad situation: a multiscale approach to free energy calc...
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... -
Rethinking Metadynamics
Metadynamics is an enhanced sampling method of great popularity, based on the on-the-fly construction of a bias potential that is a function of a selected number of collective... -
Multithermal-multibaric molecular simulations from a variational principle
We present a method for performing multithermal-multibaric molecular dynamics simulations that sample entire regions of the temperature-pressure (TP) phase diagram. The method... -
Phase equilibrium of liquid water and hexagonal ice from enhanced sampling mo...
We study the phase equilibrium between liquid water and ice Ih modeled by the TIP4P/Ice interatomic potential using enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations. Our... -
Multithermal-multibaric molecular simulations from a variational principle
We present a method for performing multithermal-multibaric molecular dynamics simulations that sample entire regions of the temperature-pressure (TP) phase diagram. The method... -
Multithermal-multibaric molecular simulations from a variational principle
We present a method for performing multithermal-multibaric molecular dynamics simulations that sample entire regions of the temperature-pressure (TP) phase diagram. The method... -
Deep learning the slow modes for rare events sampling
The development of enhanced sampling methods has greatly extended the scope of atomistic simulations, allowing long-time phenomena to be studied with accessible computational... -
The role of water in host-guest interaction
One of the main applications of atomistic computer simulations is the calculation of ligand binding free energies. The accuracy of these calculations depends on the force field... -
Investigation of the dynamic nature of proteins with enhanced sampling techni...
In dieser Arbeit werden zwei Aspekte der dynamischen Natur von proteinen mit Hilfe von Enhanced Sampling Methoden untersucht. Zunächst wurden...