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Finally, we comment on the difference between the self part and the full density autocorrelation function. The full density autocorreration function and the dynamical structure factor ire experimentally measured, while in the present MD simulation only the self pairt was studied. However, the difference between both correlation functions (dynamical structure factors) is considered to be rather small except that additional modes associated with sound modes appear in the full density autocorrelation. We have previously computed the full density autocorrelation via MD simulations for the same model as the present one, and found that the general behavior of the a relaxation was little changed. General trends of the relaxation are nearly the same for both full correlation and self part. In addition, from a point of numerical calculations, the self pMt is more easily obtained than the full autocorrelation the statistics of the data obtained from MD simulatons is much higher for the self part than for the full autocorrelation. 

Radiation probes such as neutrons, x-rays and visible light are used to see the structure of physical systems tlirough elastic scattering experunents. Inelastic scattering experiments measure both the structural and dynamical correlations that exist in a physical system. For a system which is in thennodynamic equilibrium, the molecular dynamics create spatio-temporal correlations which are the manifestation of themial fluctuations around the equilibrium state. For a condensed phase system, dynamical correlations are intimately linked to its structure. For systems in equilibrium, linear response tiieory is an appropriate framework to use to inquire on the spatio-temporal correlations resulting from thennodynamic fluctuations. Appropriate response and correlation functions emerge naturally in this framework, and the role of theory is to understand these correlation fiinctions from first principles. This is the subject of section A3.3.2. 

Hwang L-P and Freed J H 1975 Dynamic effects of pair correlation functions on spin relaxation by translational diffusion in liquids J. Chem. Rhys. 63 4017-25... 

Mandelshtam V A and Taylor H S 1997 Spectral analysis of time correlation function for a dissipative dynamical system using filter diagonalization application to calculation of unimolecular decay rates Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 3274... 

VER occurs as a result of fluctuating forces exerted by the bath on the system at the system s oscillation frequency O [5]. Fluctuating dynamical forces are characterized by a force-force correlation function. The Fourier transfonn of this force correlation function at Q, denoted n(n), characterizes the quantum mechanical frequency-dependent friction exerted on the system by the bath [5, 8]. 

Equation (C3.5.3) shows tire VER lifetime can be detennined if tire quantum mechanical force-correlation Emotion is computed. However, it is at present impossible to compute tliis Emotion accurately for complex systems. It is straightforward to compute tire classical force-correlation Emotion using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Witli tire classical force-correlation function, a quantum correction factor Q is needed 5,... 

Since the stochastic Langevin force mimics collisions among solvent molecules and the biomolecule (the solute), the characteristic vibrational frequencies of a molecule in vacuum are dampened. In particular, the low-frequency vibrational modes are overdamped, and various correlation functions are smoothed (see Case [35] for a review and further references). The magnitude of such disturbances with respect to Newtonian behavior depends on 7, as can be seen from Fig. 8 showing computed spectral densities of the protein BPTI for three 7 values. Overall, this effect can certainly alter the dynamics of a system, and it remains to study these consequences in connection with biomolecular dynamics. 

A molecular dynamics simulation provides data values at specific times. This enables thi value of some property at some instant to be correlated with the value of the same or anothe property at a later time t. The resulting values are known as time correlation coefficients. Thi correlation function is then written ... 

If the Bath relaxation constant, t, is greater than O.I ps, you should be able to calculate dynamic properties, like time correlation functions and diffusion constants, from data in the SNP and/or CSV files (see Collecting Averages from Simulations on page 85). 

A powerful analytical tool is the time correlation function. For any dynamic variable A (it), such as bond lengths or dihedral angles, the time autocorrelation function Cy) is defined... 

A time cross-correlation function between dynamic variables A (it) and B(t) is defined in a similar way ... 

We discuss the rotational dynamics of water molecules in terms of the time correlation functions, Ciit) = (P [cos 0 (it)]) (/ = 1, 2), where Pi is the /th Legendre polynomial, cos 0 (it) = U (0) U (it), u [, Is a unit vector along the water dipole (HOH bisector), and U2 is a unit vector along an OH bond. Infrared spectroscopy probes Ci(it), and deuterium NMR probes According to the Debye model (Brownian rotational motion), both... 

Dynamic information such as reorientational correlation functions and diffusion constants for the ions can readily be obtained. Collective properties such as viscosity can also be calculated in principle, but it is difficult to obtain accurate results in reasonable simulation times. Single-particle properties such as diffusion constants can be determined more easily from simulations. Figure 4.3-4 shows the mean square displacements of cations and anions in dimethylimidazolium chloride at 400 K. The rapid rise at short times is due to rattling of the ions in the cages of neighbors. The amplitude of this motion is about 0.5 A. After a few picoseconds the mean square displacement in all three directions is a linear function of time and the slope of this portion of the curve gives the diffusion constant. These diffusion constants are about a factor of 10 lower than those in normal molecular liquids at room temperature. 

Of course, knowledge of the entire spectrum does provide more information. If the shape of the wings of G (co) is established correctly, then not only the value of tj but also angular momentum correlation function Kj(t) may be determined. Thus, in order to obtain full information from the optical spectra of liquids, it is necessary to use their periphery as well as the central Lorentzian part of the spectrum. In terms of correlation functions this means that the initial non-exponential relaxation, which characterizes the system s behaviour during free rotation, is of no less importance than its long-time exponential behaviour. Therefore, we pay special attention to how dynamic effects may be taken into account in the theory of orientational relaxation. 

Without resorting to the impact approximation, perturbation theory is able to describe in the lowest order in both the dynamics of free rotation and its distortion produced by collisions. An additional advantage of the integral version of the theory is the simplicity of the relation following from Eq. (2.24) for the Laplace transforms of orientational and angular momentum correlation functions [107] ... 

Here the vector rj represents the centre of mass position, and D is usually averaged over several time origins to to improve statistics. Values for D can be resolved parallel and perpendicular to the director to give two components (D//, Dj ), and actual values are summarised for a range of studies in Table 3 of [45]. Most studies have found diffusion coefficients in the 10 m s range with the ratio D///Dj between 1.59 and 3.73 for calamitic liquid crystals. Yakovenko and co-workers have carried out a detailed study of the reorientational motion in the molecule PCH5 [101]. Their results show that conformational molecular flexibility plays an important role in the dynamics of the molecule. They also show that cage models can be used to fit the reorientational correlation functions of the molecule. 

The approach to the evaluation of vibrational spectra described above is based on classical simulations for which quantum corrections are possible. The incorporation of quantum effects directly in simulations of large molecular systems is one of the most challenging areas in theoretical chemistry today. The development of quantum simulation methods is particularly important in the area of molecular spectroscopy for which quantum effects can be important and where the goal is to use simulations to help understand the structural and dynamical origins of changes in spectral lineshapes with environmental variables such as the temperature. The direct evaluation of quantum time- correlation functions for anharmonic systems is extremely difficult. Our initial approach to the evaluation of finite temperature anharmonic effects on vibrational lineshapes is derived from the fact that the moments of the vibrational lineshape spectrum can be expressed as functions of expectation values of positional and momentum operators. These expectation values can be evaluated using extremely efficient quantum Monte-Carlo techniques. The main points are summarized below. 

For the analysis of the dynamical properties of the water and ions, the simulation cell is divided into eight subshells of thickness 3.0A and of height equal to the height of one turn of DNA. The dynamical properties, such as diffusion coefficients and velocity autocorrelation functions, of the water molecules and the ions are computed in various shells. From the study of the dipole orientational correlation function... 

Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to obtain the solution of the time correlation function (Table 14). ... 

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