期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
卷 30, 期 4, 页码 514-523出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21070
关键词
molecular dynamics; path integral simulation; Feynman-Hibbs theory; free energy calculation; thermodynamic integration; single-step perturbation; liquid neon; quantization
资金
- National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Structural Biology, Swiss National Science Foundation [200021-109227]
Using the path integral formalism or the Feynman-Hibbs approach. various expressions for the free energy of quantization for a molecular system in the condensed phase can be derived. These lead to alternative methods to directly compute quantization free energies from molecular dynamics computer simulations, which were investigated with an eye to their practical use. For a test system of liquid neon, two methods are shown to be most efficient for a direct evaluation of the excess free energy of quantization. One of them makes use of path integral simulations in combination with a single-step free energy perturbation approach and was previously reported in the literature. The other method employs a Feynman-Hibbs effective Hamiltonian together with the thermodynamic integration formalism. However, both methods are found to give less accurate results for the excess free energy of quantization than the estimate obtained from explicit path integral calculations on the excess free energy of the neon liquid in the classical and quantum mechanical limit. Suggestions are made to make both methods more accurate. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Client 30: 514-523, 2009
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