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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
Hierarchical parallelization of divide-and-conquer density functional tight-binding molecular dynamics and
Yoshifumi Nishimura1, Hiromi Nakai1,2,3
1Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
Massively parallel divide-and-conquer density functional tight-binding (DC-DFTB) molecular dynamics and metadynamics simulations are efficient approaches for describing various chemical reactions and dynamic processes of large complex systems via quantum mechanics. In this study, DC-DFTB simulations were combined with multi-replica techniques. Specifically, multiple walkers metadynamics, replica exchange molecular dynamics, and parallel tempering metadynamics methods were implemented hierarchically into the in-house Dcdftbmd program. Test simulations in an aqueous phase of the internal rotation of formamide and conformational changes of dialanine showed that the newly developed extensions increase the sampling efficiency and the exploration capabilities in DC-DFTB configuration space.
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