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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2023

Accelerating Solvent Dynamics with Replica Exchange for Improved Free Energy Sampling.

Robert Darkins, Dorothy M Duffy, Ian J Ford

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Robert DarkinsDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-9683-5675
Dorothy M DuffyDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
Ian J FordDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-2922-7332

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular reactions in solution typically involve solvent exchange; for example, a surface must partly desolvate for a molecule to adsorb onto it. When these reactions are simulated, slow solvent dynamics can limit the sampling of configurations and reduce the accuracy of free energy estimates. Here, we combine Hamiltonian replica exchange (HREX) with well-tempered metadynamics (WTMD) to accelerate the sampling of solvent configurations orthogonal to the collective variable space. We compute the formation free energy of a carbonate vacancy in the calcite-water interface and find that the combination of WTMD with HREX significantly improves the sampling relative to WTMD without HREX.

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PMID37864561
PMCPMC10653078

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