Addressing hysteresis and slow equilibration issues in cavity-based calculation of chemical potentials
| Autor: | Tim S. Totton, Daan Frenkel, Charlie R. Wand |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Frenkel, Daan [0000-0002-6362-2021], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Heptane Materials science Integrable system General Physics and Astronomy Thermodynamic integration Physics::Optics 02 engineering and technology Mechanics 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Excess chemical potential 0104 chemical sciences Partition coefficient chemistry.chemical_compound Hysteresis chemistry Robustness (computer science) Physics::Accelerator Physics Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 0210 nano-technology Order of magnitude |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of chemical physics. 149(1) |
| ISSN: | 1089-7690 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we explore the strengths and weaknesses of a cavity-based method to calculate the excess chemical potential of a large molecular solute in a dense liquid solvent. Use of the cavity alleviates some technical problems associated with the appearance of (integrable) divergences in the integrand during alchemical particle growth. The excess chemical potential calculated using the cavity-based method should be independent of the cavity attributes. However, the performance of the method (equilibration time and the robustness) does depend on the cavity attributes. To illustrate the importance of a suitable choice of the cavity attributes, we calculate the partition coefficient of pyrene in toluene and heptane using a coarse-grained model. We find that a poor choice for the functional form of the cavity may lead to hysteresis between growth and shrinkage of the cavity. Somewhat unexpectedly, we find that, by allowing the cavity to move as a pseudo-particle within the simulation box, the decay time of fluctuations in the integrand of the thermodynamic integration can be reduced by an order of magnitude, thereby increasing the statistical accuracy of the calculation. |
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