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A new simulated tempering method, which is referred to as simulated tempering umbrella sampling, for calculating the free energy of chemical reactions is proposed. First principles molecular dynamics simulations with this simulated tempering were performed in order to study the intramolecular proton transfer reaction of malonaldehyde in aqueous solution. Conformational sampling in reaction coordinate space can be easily enhanced with this method, and the free energy along a reaction coordinate can be calculated accurately. Moreover, the simulated tempering umbrella sampling provides trajectory data more efficiently than the conventional umbrella sampling method.
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We propose a new method for the determination of the weight factor for the simulated tempering method. In this method a short replica-exchange simulation is performed and the simulated tempering weight factor is obtained by the multiple-histogram reweighting techniques. The new algorithm is particularly useful for studying frustrated systems with rough energy landscape where the determination of the simulated tempering weight factor by the usual iterative process becomes very difficult. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated by taking an example for protein folding.
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Many proteins in cells are capable of sensing and responding to piconewton scale forces, a regime in which conformational changes are small but significant for biological processes. In order to efficiently and effectively sample the response of these proteins to small forces, enhanced sampling techniques will be required. In this work, we derive, implement, and evaluate an efficient method to simultaneously sample the result of applying any constant pulling force within a specified range to a molecular system of interest. We start from Simulated Tempering in Force, whereby force is applied as a linear bias on a collective variable to the systems Hamiltonian, and the coefficient is taken as a continuous auxiliary degree of freedom. We derive a formula for an average collective-variable-dependent force, which depends on a set of weights, learned on-the-fly throughout a simulation, that reflect the limit where force varies infinitely quickly. These weights can then be used to retroactively compute averages of any observable at any force within the specified range. This technique is based on recent work deriving similar equations for Infinite Switch Simulated Tempering in Temperature, that showed the infinite switch limit is the most efficient for sampling. Here, we demonstrate that our method accurately and simultaneously samples molecular systems at all forces within a user defined force range, and show how it can serve as an enhanced sampling tool for cases where the pulling direction destabilizes states of low free-energy at zero-force. This method is implemented in, and will be freely-distributed with, the PLUMED open-source sampling library, and hence can be readily applied to problems using a wide range of molecular dynamics software packages.
In this work, a new algorithm is proposed to compute single particle (infinite dilution) thermodiffusion using Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics simulations through the estimation of the thermophoretic force that applies on a solute particle. This scheme is shown to provide consistent results for simple Lennard-Jones fluids and for model nanofluids (spherical non-metallic nanoparticles + Lennard-Jones fluid) where it appears that thermodiffusion amplitude, as well as thermal conductivity, decrease with nanoparticles concentration. Then, in nanofluids in the liquid state, by changing the nature of the nanoparticle (size, mass and internal stiffness) and of the solvent (quality and viscosity) various trends are exhibited. In all cases the single particle thermodiffusion is positive, i.e. the nanoparticle tends to migrate toward the cold area. The single particle thermal diffusion 2 coefficient is shown to be independent of the size of the nanoparticle (diameter of 0.8 to 4 nm), whereas it increases with the quality of the solvent and is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the fluid. In addition, this coefficient is shown to be independent of the mass of the nanoparticle and to increase with the stiffness of the nanoparticle internal bonds. Besides, for these configurations, the mass diffusion coefficient behavior appears to be consistent with a Stokes-Einstein like law.
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