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As the research on centroid theory evolves in the future, additional far-reaching questions will probably arise. For example, can electronically nonadiabatic transitions be readily included in the CMD method Can Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics be included Correspondingly, is Bose condensation related to the coalescence of centroid momenta Can the Pauli exclusion principle be described by effective repulsive or imaginary terms in the centroid potential to simulate real-time Fermion dynamics These are questions with unknown answers, but the path centroid perspective is clearly a different and promising way to describe complex quantum systems which should continue to yield new and interesting results for some time to come. 

Steady-state and dynamic simulation can be seen as a process oriented simulation. Steady-state models perform a mass and energy balance of a stationary process in an equilibrium state and ignore any changes. Dynamic simulation is an extension of steady-state process simulation whereby time-dependence can be built into the models by derivative terms (Rhodes, 1996). Thanks to the dynamic simulation, the time-dependent description, prediction and control of real processes in real time has become possible. However, dynamic simulations require increased calculation time and are mathematically more complex than a steady-state simulation. Determining the choice of steady-state or dynamic focusses upon the role of time in the model. 

It is possible to use the quantum states to predict the electronic properties of the melt. A typical procedure is to implement molecular dynamics simulations for the liquid, which pemiit the wavefiinctions to be detemiined at each time step of the simulation. As an example, one can use the eigenpairs for a given atomic configuration to calculate the optical conductivity. The real part of tire conductivity can be expressed as... 

Langevin dynamics simulates the effect of molecular collisions and the resulting dissipation of energy that occur in real solvents, without explicitly including solvent molecules. This is accomplished by adding a random force (to model the effect of collisions) and a frictional force (to model dissipative losses) to each atom at each time step. Mathematically, this is expressed by the Langevin equation of motion (compare to Equation (22) in the previous chapter) ... 

T. Sinhora and S. Kasada, "A Real Time Dynamic Simulator for the Residue ECC Process," paper presented at Eastern Simulation Conference, Odando, Fla., Apr. 18-21,1988. 

Once the model of a ligand-receptor complex is built, its stability should be evaluated. Simple molecular mechanics optimization of the putative ligand-receptor complex leads only to the identification of the closest local minimum. However, molecular mechanics optimization of molecules lacks two crucial properties of real molecular systems temperature and, consequently, motion. Molecular dynamics studies the time-dependent evolution of coordinates of complex multimolecular systems as a function of inter- and intramolecular interactions (see Chapter 3). Because simulations are usually performed at nonnal temperature (—300 K), relatively low energy barriers, on the order of kT (0.6 kcal), can... 

A successful method to obtain dynamical information from computer simulations of quantum systems has recently been proposed by Gubernatis and coworkers [167-169]. It uses concepts from probability theory and Bayesian logic to solve the analytic continuation problem in order to obtain real-time dynamical information from imaginary-time computer simulation data. The method has become known under the name maximum entropy (MaxEnt), and has a wide range of applications in other fields apart from physics. Here we review some of the main ideas of this method and an application [175] to the model fluid described in the previous section. 

Apart from their pedagogical value, reversible rules may be used to explore possible relationships between discrete dynamical systems and the dynamics of real mechanical systems, for which the microscopic laws are known to be time-reversal invariant. What sets such systems apart from continuous idealizations is their exact reversibility, discreteness assures us that computer simulations run for arbitrarily long times will never suffer from roundoff or truncation errors. As Toffoli points out, ...the results that one obtains have thus the force of theorems [toff84a]. ... 

Similar schemes to the above can be used in molecular dynamics simulations in other ensembles such as those at constant temperature or constant pressure (see Frenkel and Smit, and Allen and Tildesley (Further reading)). A molecular dynamics simulation is computationally much more intensive than an energy minimization. Typically with modern computers the real time sampled in a simulation run for large cells is of the order of nanoseconds (106 time steps). Dynamical processes operating on longer time-scales will thus not be revealed. 

The technique can be used either to perform geometry optimization, by simultaneously annealing the wavefunction and the geometry, or to simulate real dynamics, if the temperature of the fictitious (electronic) parameters is kept close to zero. A drawback of the method is that small masses must be chosen for the electronic parameters in order to achieve an adiabatic separation of the nuclear and the fictitious parameter motions. As a consequence, time steps smaller than MD simulations involving only nuclear motion, are required. 

We have performed also a reaction field DFT/Molecular Dynamics simulation of this system. We found that after an initial time, when the complex oscillates within the cage at R(N-H) 2.0 a.u. and R(N-C1) 6.0 a.u., a small temperature variation is enough for allowing the complex to overcome the small energetic barrier and, with time, the distance between Cl" and the NH4 fragments starts to increase. Extrapolating to a real solution environment, the two fragments will be completely surrounded by water molecules, i.e. in a solution at infinite dilution the two ions are fully solvated. 

It is also important that the extent of the FAT is maximized. This will reduce the risk of problems arising during the final acceptance tests carried out on site and during system qualification. At this stage any dynamic testing considered for real-time computer process control systems will need to be undertaken utilizing simulation software, which in itself may need to be validated. 

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