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Aditya N Singh1, Avishek Das1,2, David T Limmer1,3,4,5
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: ansingh@berkeley.edu, avishek_das@berkeley.edu, dlimmer@berkeley.edu.
Abstract:
This article reviews the concepts and methods of variational path sampling. These methods allow computational studies of rare events in systems driven arbitrarily far from equilibrium. Based upon a statistical mechanics of trajectory space and leveraging the theory of large deviations, they provide a perspective from which dynamical phenomena can be studied with the same types of ensemble reweighting ideas that have been used for static equilibrium properties. Applications to chemical, material, and biophysical systems are highlighted.
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