title: Isotropic periodic sum: a method for the calculation of long-range interactions.
abstract: This work presents an accurate and efficient approach to the calculation of long-range interactions for molecular modeling and simulation. This method defines a local region for each particle and describes the remaining region as images of the local region statistically distributed in an isotropic and periodic way, which we call isotropic periodic images. Different from lattice sum methods that sum over discrete lattice images generated by periodic boundary conditions, this method sums over the isotropic periodic images to calculate long-range interactions, and is referred to as the isotropic periodic sum (IPS) method. The IPS method is not a lattice sum method and eliminates the need for a reciprocal space sum. Several analytic solutions of IPS for commonly used potentials are presented. It is demonstrated that the IPS method produces results very similar to that of Ewald summation, but with three major advantages, (1) it eliminates unwanted symmetry artifacts raised from periodic boundary conditions, (2) it can be applied to potentials of any functional form and to fully and partially homogenous systems as well as finite systems, and (3) it is more computationally efficient and can be easily parallelized for multiprocessor computers. Therefore, this method provides a general approach to an efficient calculation of long-range interactions for various kinds of molecular systems.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. wuxw@nhlbi.nih.gov
authors.forename: Xiongwu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Bernard R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Brooks
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