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To determine the free-energy profile (rather then the potential energy profile as above), one performs a (typically short) constant temperature (canonical ensemble) FPMD simulation of the system (while constraining the reaction coordinate to the prescribed value) and records the mean force of constraint along the chosen reaction coordinate. This process is then repeated for a number of points along the reaction coordinate connecting the reactant and... 

The constant temperature (canonical) ensemble is realized following Hoover s approach [5] to the Nose algorithm [27]. An additional degree of freedom is introduced in the system to describe the heat reservoir (bath). The... 

The fundamental stability conditions in thermodynamics are formulated as variational principles. Within the zero-temperature canonical ensemble, the quantities n and V are used to specify the state of interest. Suppose one chooses a nonoptimum pressure, P(r). For example, we can divide the system with a partition and place Maxwell s demon at the door between the partitions to ensure that the pressure on one side of the partition is greater than that on the other side of the partition. Then, we have that ... 

The partition function and the sum or density of states are functions which are to statistical mechanics what the wave function is to quantum mechanics. Once they are known, all of the thermodynamic quantities of interest can be calculated. It is instructive to compare these two functions because they are closely related. Both provide a measure of the number of states in a system. The partition function is a quantity that is appropriate for thermal systems at a given temperature (canonical ensemble), whereas the sum and density of states are equivalent functions for systems at constant energy (microcanonical ensemble). In order to lay the groundwork for an understanding of these two functions as well as a number of other topics in the theory of unimolecular reactions, it is essential to review some basic ideas from classical and quantum statistical mechanics. 

Keywords Configuration interaction Thermodynamics Partition function Temperature Canonical ensemble Grand canonical ensemble Fermi-Dirac statistics... 

Table 1 Finite-temperature canonical FCI results for the internal energy U, entropy S, and Helmholtz energy F of FH Table 3 Finite-temperature canonical FCI results for the internal energy U, entropy S, and Helmholtz energy F of N2 ...

In order to solve Newton s equations of motion they are discretised in time. Various schemes exist, but for the purpose of this discussion, it makes little difference which one is used. We employ the leap-frog scheme [33]. Newton s equations of motion conserve the total energy of the system and lead to a micro-canonical statistical-mechanical ensemble. In practice, one is usually more interested in ensembles in which the temperature (canonical ensemble) or the temperature and the pressure (isothermal-isobaric ensemble) are conserred. For this, Newton s equations of motion have to be slightly modified to couple the system temperature T (or pressure p) to a temperature (or pressure) bath of temperature T (or pressure po). There are several such constant-temperature and constant-pressure schemes [33, 39], We use the loose-coupling algorithm [40] which implements a first-order thermostat and manostat. 

The canonical ensemble is a set of systems each having the same number of molecules N, the same volume V and the same temperature T. This corresponds to putting the systems in a thennostatic bath or, since the number of systems is essentially infinite, simply separating them by diathennic walls and letting them equilibrate. In such an ensemble, the probability of finding the system in a particular quantum state / is proportional to where UfN, V) is tire energy of the /th quantum state and /c, as before, is the Boltzmaim... 

The grand canonical ensemble is a set of systems each with the same volume V, the same temperature T and the same chemical potential p (or if there is more than one substance present, the same set of p. s). This corresponds to a set of systems separated by diathennic and penneable walls and allowed to equilibrate. In classical thennodynamics, the appropriate fimction for fixed p, V, and Tis the productpV(see equation (A2.1.3 7)1 and statistical mechanics relates pV directly to the grand canonical partition function... 

The above derivation leads to the identification of the canonical ensemble density distribution. More generally, consider a system with volume V andA particles of type A, particles of type B, etc., such that N = Nj + Ag +. . ., and let the system be in themial equilibrium with a much larger heat reservoir at temperature T. Then if fis tlie system Hamiltonian, the canonical distribution is (quantum mechanically)... 

The grand canonical ensemble is a collection of open systems of given chemical potential p, volume V and temperature T, in which the number of particles or the density in each system can fluctuate. It leads to an important expression for the compressibility Kj, of a one-component fluid ... 

The canonical ensemble corresponds to a system of fixed and V, able to exchange energy with a thennal bath at temperature T, which represents the effects of the surroundings. The thennodynamic potential is the Helmholtz free energy, and it is related to the partition fiinction follows ... 

As an alternative to sampling the canonical distribution, it is possible to devise equations of motion for which the iiiechanicaT temperature is constrained to a constant value [84, 85, 86]. The equations of motion are... 

Nose, S. A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble. Mol. Phys. 52 (1984) 255-268 ibid. A unified formulation of the constant temperature molecular dynamics method. J. Chem. Phys. 81 (1984) 511-519. 

In the q = l limit, the effective temperature equals the standard temperature. Otherwise, adding a constant shift to the potential energy is equivalent to rescaling the temperature at which the canonical probability distribution is computed. 

Do we expect this model to be accurate for a dynamics dictated by Tsallis statistics A jump diffusion process that randomly samples the equilibrium canonical Tsallis distribution has been shown to lead to anomalous diffusion and Levy flights in the 5/3 < q < 3 regime. [3] Due to the delocalized nature of the equilibrium distributions, we might find that the microstates of our master equation are not well defined. Even at low temperatures, it may be difficult to identify distinct microstates of the system. The same delocalization can lead to large transition probabilities for states that are not adjacent ill configuration space. This would be a violation of the assumptions of the transition state theory - that once the system crosses the transition state from the reactant microstate it will be deactivated and equilibrated in the product state. Concerted transitions between spatially far-separated states may be common. This would lead to a highly connected master equation where each state is connected to a significant fraction of all other microstates of the system. [9, 10]... 

The canonical ensemble is the name given to an ensemble for constant temperature, number of particles and volume. For our purposes Jf can be considered the same as the total energy, (p r ), which equals the sum of the kinetic energy (jT(p )) of the system, which depends upon the momenta of the particles, and the potential energy (T (r )), which depends upon tlie positions. The factor N arises from the indistinguishability of the particles and the factor is required to ensure that the partition function is equal to the quantum mechanical result for a particle in a box. A short discussion of some of the key results of statistical mechanics is provided in Appendix 6.1 and further details can be found in standard textbooks. 

One application of the grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation method is in the study ol adsorption and transport of fluids through porous solids. Mixtures of gases or liquids ca separated by the selective adsorption of one component in an appropriate porous mate The efficacy of the separation depends to a large extent upon the ability of the materit adsorb one component in the mixture much more strongly than the other component, separation may be performed over a range of temperatures and so it is useful to be to predict the adsorption isotherms of the mixtures. 

A7 Ethane/methane selectivity calculated from grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of mixtures in slit IS at a temperature of 296 K. The selectivity is defined as the ratio of the mole fractions in the pore to the ratio of mole fractions in the bulk. H is the slit width defined in terms of the methane collision diameter (Tch,- (Figure awn from Crackncll R F, D Nicholson and N Quirke 1994. A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Study ofLennard-s Mixtures in Slit Pores 2 Mixtures of Two-Centre Ethane with Methane. Molecular Simulation 13 161-175.)... 

Several VTST techniques exist. Canonical variational theory (CVT), improved canonical variational theory (ICVT), and microcanonical variational theory (pVT) are the most frequently used. The microcanonical theory tends to be the most accurate, and canonical theory the least accurate. All these techniques tend to lose accuracy at higher temperatures. At higher temperatures, excited states, which are more difficult to compute accurately, play an increasingly important role, as do trajectories far from the transition structure. For very small molecules, errors at room temperature are often less than 10%. At high temperatures, computed reaction rates could be in error by an order of magnitude. 

Note This method of temperature regulation does not give all properties of the canonical ensemble. In particular, you cannot calculate Cy, heat capacity at constant volume. 

Eor many systems the ensemble that is used in an MC simulation refers to the canonical ensemble, (N, F/ T). This ensemble permits a rise and fall in the pressure of the system, P, because the temperature and volume are held constant. Thus, the probabiUty that any system of N particles, in a volume H at temperature Tis found in a configuration x is proportional to the Boltzmann weighted energy at that state, E, and it is given by... 

In this expression. Ait is the size of the integration time step, Xj is a characteristic relaxation time, and T is the instantaneous temperature. In the simulation of water, they found a relaxation time of Xj = 0.4 ps to be appropriate. However, this method does not correspond exactly to the canonical ensemble. 

Another popular approach to the isothennal (canonical) MD method was shown by Nose [25]. This method for treating the dynamics of a system in contact with a thennal reservoir is to include a degree of freedom that represents that reservoir, so that one can perform deterministic MD at constant temperature by refonnulating the Lagrangian equations of motion for this extended system. We can describe the Nose approach as an illustration of an extended Lagrangian method. Energy is allowed to flow dynamically from the reservoir to the system and back the reservoir has a certain thermal inertia associated with it. However, it is now more common to use the Nose scheme in the implementation of Hoover [26]. 

Free energy calculations rely on the following thermodynamic perturbation theory [6-8]. Consider a system A described by the energy function = 17 + T. 17 = 17 (r ) is the potential energy, which depends on the coordinates = (Fi, r, , r ), and T is the kinetic energy, which (in a Cartesian coordinate system) depends on the velocities v. For concreteness, the system could be made up of a biomolecule in solution. We limit ourselves (mostly) to a classical mechanical description for simplicity and reasons of space. In the canonical thermodynamic ensemble (constant N, volume V, temperature T), the classical partition function Z is proportional to the configurational integral Q, which in a Cartesian coordinate system is... 

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