title: Hybrid particle-field molecular dynamics simulations for dense polymer systems.
abstract: We propose a theoretical scheme for a hybrid simulation technique where self-consistent field theory and molecular dynamics simulation are combined (MD-SCF). We describe the detail of the main implementation issues on the evaluation of a smooth three-dimensional spatial density distribution and its special gradient based on the positions of particles. The treatments of our multiscale model system on an atomic scale or on a specific coarse-grained scale are carefully discussed. We perform a series of test simulations on this hybrid model system and compare the structural correlations on the atomic scale with those of classical MD simulations. The results are very encouraging and open a way to an efficient strategy that possess the main advantages common to the SCF and the atomistic approaches, while avoiding the disadvantages of each of the treatments.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, via Ponte don Melillo Fisciano Salerno I-84084, Italy. gmilano@unisa.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Milano
authors.forename: Toshihiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawakatsu
mesh_terms: D008958:Models, Molecular; D044367:Phase Transition; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers