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Nuclear Quantum Effects in liquid water at near classical computational cost using the adaptive Quantum Thermal Bath

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We demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of a recently introduced approach to account for nuclear quantum effects (NQE) in molecular simulations: the adaptive Quantum Thermal Bath (adQTB). In this method, zero point energy is introduced through a generalized Langevin thermostat designed to precisely enforce the quantum fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We propose a refined adQTB algorithm with improved accuracy and we report adQTB simulations of liquid water. Through extensive comparison with reference path integral calculations, we demonstrate that it provides excellent accuracy for a broad range of structural and thermodynamic observables as well as infrared vibrational spectra. The adQTB has a computational cost comparable to classical molecular dynamics, enabling simulations of up to millions of degrees of freedom.

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hal-03132347 , version 1 (05-02-2021)

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Nastasia Mauger, Thomas Plé, Louis Lagardère, Sara Bonella, Etienne Mangaud, et al.. Nuclear Quantum Effects in liquid water at near classical computational cost using the adaptive Quantum Thermal Bath. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, ⟨10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01722⟩. ⟨hal-03132347⟩
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