Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2005-06-17
Physics
Chemical Physics
10 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2000244
An energy-biased method to evaluate ensemble averages requiring test-particle insertion is presented. The method is based on biasing the sampling within the subdomains of the test-particle configurational space with energies smaller than a given value freely assigned. These energy-wells are located via unbiased random insertion over the whole configurational space and are sampled using the so called Hit&Run algorithm, which uniformly samples compact regions of any shape immersed in a space of arbitrary dimensions. Because the bias is defined in terms of the energy landscape it can be exactly corrected to obtain the unbiased distribution. The test-particle energy distribution is then combined with the Bennett relation for the evaluation of the chemical potential. We apply this protocol to a system with relatively small probability of low-energy test-particle insertion, liquid argon at high density and low temperature, and show that the energy-biased Bennett method is around five times more efficient than the standard Bennett method. A similar performance gain is observed in the reconstruction of the energy distribution.
Coveney Peter V.
Delgado-Buscalioni Rafael
Fabritiis Gianni de
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