title: Self-adaptive enhanced sampling in the energy and trajectory spaces: accelerated thermodynamics and kinetic calculations.
abstract: Here, we introduce a simple self-adaptive computational method to enhance the sampling in energy, configuration, and trajectory spaces. The method makes use of two strategies. It first uses a non-Boltzmann distribution method to enhance the sampling in the phase space, in particular, in the configuration space. The application of this method leads to a broad energy distribution in a large energy range and a quickly converged sampling of molecular configurations. In the second stage of simulations, the configuration space of the system is divided into a number of small regions according to preselected collective coordinates. An enhanced sampling of reactive transition paths is then performed in a self-adaptive fashion to accelerate kinetics calculations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA. yiqin@mail.chem.tamu.edu
authors.forename: Yi Qin
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Gao