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Multicanonical molecular dynamics algorithm employing an adaptive force-biased iteration scheme.

Authors :
Kim JG
Fukunishi Y
Nakamura H
Source :
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics [Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys] 2004 Nov; Vol. 70 (5 Pt 2), pp. 057103. Date of Electronic Publication: 2004 Nov 17.
Publication Year :
2004

Abstract

We present one effective multicanonical molecular dynamics (MCMD) algorithm accelerating the convergence of rough energy landscapes simulations via an adaptive force-biased iteration scheme. Our method utilizes several short MCMD simulations with dynamically updated weights and combines them to estimate the density of states via multiple histogram technique. The key step of our algorithm is the adaptive refinement for the derivative of multicanonical weight, which allows the system to enlarge the sampling energy range maintaining the statistical accuracy. The performance of our method has been validated for atomic Lennard-Jones clusters.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1539-3755
Volume :
70
Issue :
5 Pt 2
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
15600799
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.057103