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When quantum effects are large, the PF can be evaluated by path integral methods [H], Our exposition follows a review article by Gillan [12], Starting with the canonical PF for a system of particles... 

Berne B J and Thirumalai D 1986 On the simulation of quantum systems path integral methods Ann. Rev. Rhys. Chem. 37 401... 

Numerical integration methods are widely used to solve these integrals. The Gauss-Miihler method [28] is employed in all of the calculations used here. This method is a Gaussian quadrature [29] which gives exact answers for Coulomb scattering. 

Assuming that the diabatic space can be truncated to the same size as the adiabatic space, Eqs. (64) and (65) clearly define the relationship between the two representations, and methods have been developed to obtain the tians-formation matrices directly. These include the line integral method of Baer [53,54] and the block diagonalization method of Pacher et al. [179]. Failure of the truncation assumption, however, leads to possibly important nonremovable derivative couplings remaining in the diabatic basis [55,182]. 

Hi) The use of quantum methods to obtain correct statistical static (but not dynamic) averages for heavy quantum particles. In this category path-integral methods were developed on the basis of Feynman s path... 

B.J. Leimkuhler, S. Reich, and R. D. Skeel. Integration methods for molecular dynamics. In Mathematical approaches to biomolecular structure and dynamics, Seiten 161-185, New York, 1996. Springer. 

In this paper, we discuss semi-implicit/implicit integration methods for highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems. Such systems arise, for example, in molecular dynamics [1] and in the finite dimensional truncation of Hamiltonian partial differential equations. Classical discretization methods, such as the Verlet method [19], require step-sizes k smaller than the period e of the fast oscillations. Then these methods find pointwise accurate approximate solutions. But the time-step restriction implies an enormous computational burden. Furthermore, in many cases the high-frequency responses are of little or no interest. Consequently, various researchers have considered the use of scini-implicit/implicit methods, e.g. [6, 11, 9, 16, 18, 12, 13, 8, 17, 3]. 

Symplectic integration methods replace the t-flow (pt,H by the symplectic transformation which retains Hamiltonian features of They poses a backward error interpretation property which means that the computed solutions are solving exactly or, at worst, approximately a nearby Hamiltonian problem which means that the points computed by means of symplectic integration, lay either exactly or at worst, approximately on the true trajectories [5]. 

The LFV integration method propagates coordinates and momenta on the basis of the equation of motion (5) by the following relations... 

Note that there are also variations in total energy which might be due to the so called step size resonance [26, 27]. Shown are also results for fourth order algorithm which gives qualitatively the same results as the second order SISM. This show that the step size resonances are not due to the low order integration method but rather to the symplectic methods [28]. 

Leimkuhler, B. J., Reich, S., Skeel, R. D. Integration Methods for Molecular Dynamics. In IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications. Eds. Mesirov, J., Schulten, K., Springer-Verlag, Berlin 82 (1995)... 

These experiments confirm observations in the recent articles [20] and [11] symplectic methods easily outperform more traditional quaternionic integration methods in long term rigid body simulations. 

Note that the same results have not been shown for symmetric (time-reversible) integration methods, although symmetric methods seem to perform quite well in practice. For a discussion of symmetric methods in the context of the QCMD model see [16, 17, 13]. 

D. Okunbor, Integration methods for A -body problems , Proc. of the second International Conference On Dynamic Systems, 1996. 

To calculate the partition function for a system of N atoms using this simple Monte Car integration method would involve the following steps ... 

The overall free energy can be partitioned into individual contributions if the thermo-lynamic integration method is used [Boresch et al. 1994 Boresch and Karplus 1995]. The itarting point is the thermodynamic integration formula for the free energy ... 

For an introduction to excited states via path integral methods see... 

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