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¹Department of Materials, Polymer Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. x.shang@mat.ethz.ch.

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We introduce the pairwise adaptive Langevin (PAdL) method for soft matter simulations. PAdL offers improved computational efficiency, stability, and accuracy for both equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics calculations.

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Area of Science:

Computational physics
Soft matter physics
Materials science

Background:

Molecular dynamics simulations are crucial for understanding soft matter behavior.
Existing methods like Langevin dynamics and dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) have limitations in accuracy and efficiency for nonequilibrium simulations.

Purpose of the Study:

To present and evaluate the pairwise adaptive Langevin (PAdL) method for molecular dynamics simulations.
To assess PAdL's performance in terms of computational efficiency, stability, and accuracy for soft matter systems, particularly in nonequilibrium conditions.

Main Methods:

Comparison of PAdL with Langevin dynamics and DPD.
Analysis of conservation properties, convergence of averages, and accuracy of numerical discretizations.
Simulation of polymer melts under equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions.

Main Results:

PAdL conserves momentum and accurately models orientational relaxation rates, unlike Langevin dynamics.
PAdL demonstrates significant improvements in computational efficiency for polymer melt simulations.
PAdL provides excellent control over relaxation rates to equilibrium.
In nonequilibrium simulations, PAdL achieves higher shear rates with better stability and accuracy than DPD and Langevin dynamics.

Conclusions:

PAdL is a versatile and efficient numerical method for soft matter simulations.
PAdL offers a superior alternative to existing methods for studying complex dynamics, especially out of equilibrium.
The method's ease of implementation and performance benefits make it suitable for a wide range of nonequilibrium modeling problems.