TY - GEN A1 - Zhang, Wei A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Hartmann, Carsten A1 - Weber, Marcus A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Applications of the cross-entropy method to importance sampling and optimal control of diffusions N2 - We study the cross-entropy method for diffusions. One of the results is a versatile cross-entropy algorithm that can be used to design efficient importance sampling strategies for rare events or to solve optimal control problems. The approach is based on the minimization of a suitable cross-entropy functional, with a parametric family of exponentially tilted probability distributions. We illustrate the new algorithm with several numerical examples and discuss algorithmic issues and possible extensions of the method. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-10 KW - important sampling KW - optimal control KW - cross-entropy method KW - rare events KW - change of measure Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-49720 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhang, Wei A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Hartmann, Carsten A1 - Weber, Marcus A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Applications of the cross-entropy method to importance sampling and optimal control of diffusions JF - Siam Journal on Scientific Computing Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/14096493X VL - 36 IS - 6 SP - A2654 EP - A2672 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Zhang, P. A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - On the Numerical Accuracy of Ewald, Smooth Particle Mesh Ewald, and Staggered Mesh Ewald Methods for Correlated Molecular Systems JF - J. Chem. Theo. Comp. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publications.imp.fu-berlin.de/1181/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/ct300343y VL - 8 IS - 9 SP - 3243 EP - 3256 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Zhang, P. T1 - Error Estimate of Short-Range Force Calculation in the Inhomogeneous Molecular Systems JF - Phys. Rev. E Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publications.imp.fu-berlin.de/1125/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.026704 VL - 86 IS - 02 SP - 026704 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Site, Luigi Delle T1 - Adaptive Resolution Simulation (AdResS): A Smooth Thermodynamic and Structural Transition from Atomistic to Coarse Grained Resolution and Vice Versa in a Grand Canonical Fashion. JF - J. Chem. Theo. Comp. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publications.imp.fu-berlin.de/1182/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/ct3003354 VL - 8 IS - 8 SP - 2878 EP - 2887 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Ciccotti, Giovanni A1 - von Kleist, Max T1 - Exploring the conformational dynamics of alanine dipeptide in solution subjected to an external electric field: A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation JF - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation N2 - 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. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/ct400993e VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 1376 EP - 1386 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Ciccotti, Giovanni A1 - Delle Site, Luigi T1 - Exploring the conformational dynamics of alanine dipeptide in solution subjected to an external electric field: A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation JF - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1565-4 VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 1376 EP - 1386 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Building Markov State Models for Periodically Driven Non-Equilibrium Systems N2 - Recent years have seen an increased interest in non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations, especially for molecular systems with periodic forcing by external fields, e.g., in the context of studying effects of electromagnetic radiation on the human body tissue. Lately, an NEMD methods with local thermostating has been proposed that allows for studying non-equilibrium processes in a statistically reliable and thermodynamically consistent way. In this article, we demonstrate how to construct Markov State Models (MSMs) for such NEMD simulations. MSM building has been well-established for systems in equilibrium where MSMs with just a few (macro-)states allow for accurate reproduction of the essential kinetics of the molecular system under consideration. Non-equilibrium MSMs have been lacking so far. The article presents how to construct such MSMs and illustrates their validity and usefulness for the case of conformation dynamics of alanine dipeptide in an external electric field. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-46 KW - Non-equilibrium KW - Markov states model KW - Alanine dipeptide KW - Electric field KW - Floquet theory Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-53167 SN - 1438-0064 N1 - To appear in: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Hartmann, Carsten A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Site, Luigi Delle T1 - Grand-canonical-like molecular-dynamics simulations by using an adaptive-resolution technique JF - Phys. Rev. X Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011018 VL - 3 SP - 011018 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Hartmann, Carsten A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Linear response theory and optimal control for a molecular system under nonequilibrium conditions N2 - In this paper, we propose a straightforward generalization of linear response theory to systems in nonequilibrium that are subject to nonequilibrium driving. We briefly revisit the standard linear response result for equilibrium systems, where we consider Langevin dynamics as a special case, and then give an alternative derivation using a change-of-measure argument that does not rely on any stationarity or reversibility assumption. This procedure moreover easily enables us to calculate the second order correction to the linear response formula (which may or may not be useful in practice). Furthermore, we outline how the novel nonequilibirum linear response formula can be used to compute optimal controls of molecular systems for cases in which one wants to steer the system to maximize a certain target expectation value. We illustrate our approach with simple numerical examples. T3 - ZIB-Report - 13-33 KW - nonequilibrium molecular dynamics KW - linear response KW - Girsanov transformation KW - stochastic control Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-18944 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Hartmann, Carsten A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Linear response theory and optimal control for a molecular system under nonequilibrium conditions JF - Molecular Physics Y1 - 2013 UR - http://publications.imp.fu-berlin.de/1297/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2013.844370 VL - 111 SP - 3555 EP - 3564 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Agarwal, Animesh A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Delle Site, Luigi T1 - Chemical potential of liquids and mixtures via Adaptive Resolution Simulation N2 - We employ the adaptive resolution approach AdResS, in its recently developed Grand Canonicallike version (GC-AdResS) [Wang et al. Phys.Rev.X 3, 011018 (2013)], to calculate the excess chemical potential, $μ^{ex}$, of various liquids and mixtures. We compare our results with those obtained from full atomistic simulations using the technique of thermodynamic integration and show a satisfactory agreement. In GC-AdResS the procedure to calculate $μ^{ex}$ corresponds to the process of standard initial equilibration of the system; this implies that, independently of the specific aim of the study, $μ^{ex}$, for each molecular species, is automatically calculated every time a GC-AdResS simulation is performed. T3 - ZIB-Report - 14-25 KW - Coarse graining KW - adaptive resolution KW - molecular dynamics KW - chemical potential Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-50972 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Agarwal, Animesh A1 - Wang, Han A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Delle Site, Luigi T1 - Chemical potential of liquids and mixtures via Adaptive Resolution Simulation JF - The Journal of Chemical Physics Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4886807 VL - 141 SP - 034102 ER -