Recently Tobias and Broods introduced a method to compute by molecular dynamics with constraints the probability density P(≈r) = < δ(r - ≈r) &>; associated with rate values≈r of a spatial coordinate r. In this Letter we extend their approach to the case of a general reaction coordinate ξ(r), an arbitrary function of the configuration-space coordinates. The generalized version is shown to be the integral form of the free energy calculation in the constrained-reaction-coordinate ensemble where the mean force is computed as an average in a ξ-constrained ensemble. The two approaches are shown to be of equal computational efficiency for a very simple Lennard-Jones test case. © 1991.
Titolo: | Activation energies by molecular dynamics with constraints | |
Autore/i: | Paci E.; Ciccotti G.; Ferrario M.; Kapral R. | |
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Anno: | 1991 | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(91)90259-C | |
Abstract: | Recently Tobias and Broods introduced a method to compute by molecular dynamics with constraints the probability density P(≈r) = < δ(r - ≈r) &>; associated with rate values≈r of a spatial coordinate r. In this Letter we extend their approach to the case of a general reaction coordinate ξ(r), an arbitrary function of the configuration-space coordinates. The generalized version is shown to be the integral form of the free energy calculation in the constrained-reaction-coordinate ensemble where the mean force is computed as an average in a ξ-constrained ensemble. The two approaches are shown to be of equal computational efficiency for a very simple Lennard-Jones test case. © 1991. | |
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