@article{WangSchuetteCiccottietal., author = {Wang, Han and Sch{\"u}tte, Christof and Ciccotti, Giovanni and Delle Site, Luigi}, title = {Exploring the conformational dynamics of alanine dipeptide in solution subjected to an external electric field: A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation}, series = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation}, volume = {10}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation}, number = {4}, doi = {10.1186/s12859-017-1565-4}, pages = {1376 -- 1386}, language = {en} } @article{WangSchuetteCiccottietal., author = {Wang, Han and Sch{\"u}tte, Christof and Ciccotti, Giovanni and von Kleist, Max}, title = {Exploring the conformational dynamics of alanine dipeptide in solution subjected to an external electric field: A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation}, series = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation}, volume = {10}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation}, number = {4}, doi = {10.1021/ct400993e}, pages = {1376 -- 1386}, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate the conformational dynamics of alanine dipeptide under an external electric field by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. We consider the case of a constant and of an oscillatory field. In this context, we propose a procedure to implement the temperature control, which removes the irrelevant thermal effects of the field. For the constant field different time-scales are identified in the conformational, dipole moment, and orientational dynamics. Moreover, we prove that the solvent structure only marginally changes when the external field is switched on. In the case of oscillatory field, the conformational changes are shown to be as strong as in the previous case, and nontrivial nonequilibrium circular paths in the conformation space are revealed by calculating the integrated net probability fluxes.}, language = {en} }