title: Computing the non-Markovian coarse-grained interactions derived from the Mori-Zwanzig formalism in molecular systems: Application to polymer melts.
abstract: Memory effects are often introduced during coarse-graining of a complex dynamical system. In particular, a generalized Langevin equation (GLE) for the coarse-grained (CG) system arises in the context of Mori-Zwanzig formalism. Upon a pairwise decomposition, GLE can be reformulated into its pairwise version, i.e., non-Markovian dissipative particle dynamics (DPD). GLE models the dynamics of a single coarse particle, while DPD considers the dynamics of many interacting CG particles, with both CG systems governed by non-Markovian interactions. We compare two different methods for the practical implementation of the non-Markovian interactions in GLE and DPD systems. More specifically, a direct evaluation of the non-Markovian (NM) terms is performed in LE-NM and DPD-NM models, which requires the storage of historical information that significantly increases computational complexity. Alternatively, we use a few auxiliary variables in LE-AUX and DPD-AUX models to replace the non-Markovian dynamics with a Markovian dynamics in a higher dimensional space, leading to a much reduced memory footprint and computational cost. In our numerical benchmarks, the GLE and non-Markovian DPD models are constructed from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of star-polymer melts. Results show that a Markovian dynamics with auxiliary variables successfully generates equivalent non-Markovian dynamics consistent with the reference MD system, while maintaining a tractable computational cost. Also, transient subdiffusion of the star-polymers observed in the MD system can be reproduced by the coarse-grained models. The non-interacting particle models, LE-NM/AUX, are computationally much cheaper than the interacting particle models, DPD-NM/AUX. However, the pairwise models with momentum conservation are more appropriate for correctly reproducing the long-time hydrodynamics characterised by an algebraic decay in the velocity autocorrelation function.
authors.affiliation: Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Hee Sun
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Darve
authors.affiliation: Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
authors.forename: George Em
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Karniadakis