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2011年1月14日

Simple and effective application of the Wang-Landau method for multicanonical molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Hiromitsu Shimoyama
  • ,
  • Haruki Nakamura
  • ,
  • Yasushige Yonezawa

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
DOI
10.1063/1.3517105

We propose a novel application of the Wang-Landau method (WLM) for multicanonical molecular dynamics (McMD) simulations. Originally, WLM was developed for Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. Fundamentally, WLM remarkably reduces simulation efforts because it estimates the optimal multicanonical energy function automatically. When WLM is applied to McMD, not only the multicanonical energy but also energy gradient must be estimated adequately. However, because of the rugged multicanonical energy function at the early simulation stage, applications of WLM for MD simulations are difficult and require a smoothing procedure: simulation efforts such as cubic-spline extrapolation and gathering multiple preruns are utilized for smoothing. We propose a simple and effective smoothing method that requires only one additional equation and two time-dependent parameters. As a result, our method produced the correct multicanonical energy function and succeeded in the flat sampling of a small biomolecule with reduced simulation effort. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3517105
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21241082
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1063/1.3517105
  • ISSN : 0021-9606
  • PubMed ID : 21241082
  • SCOPUS ID : 78751502009

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