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Performance of extended Lagrangian schemes for molecular dynamics simulations with classical polarizable force fields and density functional theory

Performance of extended Lagrangian schemes for molecular dynamics simulations with classical polarizable force fields and density functional theory
Performance of extended Lagrangian schemes for molecular dynamics simulations with classical polarizable force fields and density functional theory
Iterative energy minimization with the aim of achieving self-consistency is a common feature of Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) and classical molecular dynamics with polarizable force fields. In the former, the electronic degrees of freedom are optimized, while the latter often involves an iterative determination of induced point dipoles. The computational effort of the self-consistency procedure can be reduced by re-using converged solutions from previous time steps. However, this must be done carefully, as not to break time-reversal symmetry, which negatively impacts energy conservation. Self-consistent schemes based on the extended Lagrangian formalism, where the initial guesses for the optimized quantities are treated as auxiliary degrees of freedom, constitute one elegant solution. We report on the performance of two integration schemes with the same underlying extended Lagrangian structure, which we both employ in two radically distinct regimes-in classical molecular dynamics simulations with the AMOEBA polarizable force field and in BOMD simulations with the Onetep linear-scaling density functional theory (LS-DFT) approach. Both integration schemes are found to offer significant improvements over the standard (unpropagated) molecular dynamics formulation in both the classical and LS-DFT regimes.
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Vitale, Valerio
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Dziedzic, Jacek
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Albaugh, Alex
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Niklasson, Anders M.N.
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Head-Gordon, Teresa
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Skylaris, Chris-Kriton
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Vitale, Valerio
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Dziedzic, Jacek
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Albaugh, Alex
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Niklasson, Anders M.N.
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Head-Gordon, Teresa
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Skylaris, Chris-Kriton
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Vitale, Valerio, Dziedzic, Jacek, Albaugh, Alex, Niklasson, Anders M.N., Head-Gordon, Teresa and Skylaris, Chris-Kriton (2017) Performance of extended Lagrangian schemes for molecular dynamics simulations with classical polarizable force fields and density functional theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 146 (12), [124115]. (doi:10.1063/1.4978684). (In Press)

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Iterative energy minimization with the aim of achieving self-consistency is a common feature of Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) and classical molecular dynamics with polarizable force fields. In the former, the electronic degrees of freedom are optimized, while the latter often involves an iterative determination of induced point dipoles. The computational effort of the self-consistency procedure can be reduced by re-using converged solutions from previous time steps. However, this must be done carefully, as not to break time-reversal symmetry, which negatively impacts energy conservation. Self-consistent schemes based on the extended Lagrangian formalism, where the initial guesses for the optimized quantities are treated as auxiliary degrees of freedom, constitute one elegant solution. We report on the performance of two integration schemes with the same underlying extended Lagrangian structure, which we both employ in two radically distinct regimes-in classical molecular dynamics simulations with the AMOEBA polarizable force field and in BOMD simulations with the Onetep linear-scaling density functional theory (LS-DFT) approach. Both integration schemes are found to offer significant improvements over the standard (unpropagated) molecular dynamics formulation in both the classical and LS-DFT regimes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 March 2017
Organisations: Chemistry, Electronics & Computer Science, Computational Systems Chemistry

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Local EPrints ID: 407980
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/407980
ISSN: 0021-9606
PURE UUID: 2d31b4b4-2c55-4620-93b5-cec7cad8c32a
ORCID for Jacek Dziedzic: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4786-372X
ORCID for Chris-Kriton Skylaris: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0258-3433

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Date deposited: 06 May 2017 01:02
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:03

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Author: Valerio Vitale
Author: Jacek Dziedzic ORCID iD
Author: Alex Albaugh
Author: Anders M.N. Niklasson
Author: Teresa Head-Gordon

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