New observations regarding deterministic, time reversible thermostats and Gauss's principle of least constraint

Details New observations regarding deterministic, time reversible thermostats and Gauss's principle of least constraint New observations regarding deterministic, time reversible thermostats and Gauss's principle of least constraint

2005-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502498v1

Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 194/1-8 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

27 pages including 10 figures; submitted for publication Journal of Chemical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1900724

Deterministic thermostats are frequently employed in non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations in order to remove the heat produced irreversibly over the course of such simulations. The simplest thermostat is the Gaussian thermostat, which satisfies Gauss's principle of least constraint and fixes the peculiar kinetic energy. There are of course infinitely many ways to thermostat systems, e.g. by fixing $\sum\limits_i{|{p_i}|^{\mu + 1}}$. In the present paper we provide, for the first time, convincing arguments as to why the conventional Gaussian isokinetic thermostat ($\mu=1$) is unique in this class. We show that this thermostat minimizes the phase space compression and is the only thermostat for which the conjugate pairing rule (CPR) holds. Moreover it is shown that for finite sized systems in the absence of an applied dissipative field, all other thermostats ($\mu=1$) perform work on the system in the same manner as a dissipative field while simultaneously removing the dissipative heat so generated. All other thermostats ($\mu=1$) are thus auto-dissipative. Among all $\mu$-thermostats, only the $\mu=1$ Gaussian thermostat permits an equilibrium state.

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