A Versatile Multiple Time Step Scheme for Efficient ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Time-Reversible Multiple Time Scale ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

We have developed previously ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) algorithms utilizing local molecular wave functions with atom-centered bases. The expense of such methods led us to explore means to employ multiple time step schemes to reduce costs. Herein we report our second implementation of such a scheme. In particular, our previous multiple time step AIMD method has been improved substantia...

A special purpose computer for ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

Time-reversible ab initio molecular dynamics.

Time-reversible ab initio molecular dynamics based on a lossless multichannel decomposition for the integration of the electronic degrees of freedom [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123001 (2006)] is explored. The authors present a lossless time-reversible density matrix molecular dynamics scheme. This approach often allows for stable Hartree-Fock simulations using only one single self-consistent field cy...

Constructing ab initio force fields for molecular dynamics simulations

We explore and discuss several important issues concerning the derivation of many-body force fields from ab initio quantum chemical data. In particular, we seek a general methodology for constructing ab initio force fields that are ‘‘chemically accurate’’ and are computationally efficient for large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. We investigate two approaches for modeling many-body intera...

Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics

Computer simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics, are very powerful computational techniques that provide detailed and essentially exact information on classical many-body problems. With the advent of ab-initio molecular dynamics, where the forces are computed on-the-fly by accurate electronic structure calculations, the scope of either method has been greatly extended. Th...