Computation of free energy differences through nonequilibrium stochastic dynamics: The reaction coordinate case

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2006.08.003zbMATH Open1197.82087arXivcond-mat/0603426OpenAlexW2021501997WikidataQ56689525 ScholiaQ56689525MaRDI QIDQ876022FDOQ876022

Tony Lelièvre, Gabriel Stoltz, Mathias Rousset

Publication date: 16 April 2007

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The computation of free energy differences through an exponential weighting of out of equilibrium paths (known as the Jarzynski equality) is often used for transitions between states described by an external parameter lambda in the Hamiltonian. We present here an extension to transitions between states defined by different values of some reaction coordinate, using a projected Brownian dynamics. In contrast with other approaches, we use a projection rather than a constraining potential to let the constraints associated with the reaction coordinate evolve. We show how to use the Lagrange multipliers associated with these constraints to compute the work associated with a given trajectory. Appropriate discretizations are proposed. Some numerical results demonstrate the applicability of the method for the computation of free energy difference profiles.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603426




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