Replica exchange and expanded ensemble simulations as Gibbs sampling: Simple improvements for enhanced mixing

Details Replica exchange and expanded ensemble simulations as Gibbs sampling: Simple improvements for enhanced mixing Replica exchange and expanded ensemble simulations as Gibbs sampling: Simple improvements for enhanced mixing

2011-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/1105.5749v4

J. Chem. Phys. 135:194110 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

17 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3660669

The widespread popularity of replica exchange and expanded ensemble algorithms for simulating complex molecular systems in chemistry and biophysics has generated much interest in enhancing phase space mixing of these protocols, thus improving their efficiency. Here, we demonstrate how both of these classes of algorithms can be considered a form of Gibbs sampling within a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) framework. While the update of the conformational degrees of freedom by Metropolis Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics unavoidably generates correlated samples, we show how judicious updating of the thermodynamic state indices---corresponding to thermodynamic parameters such as temperature or alchemical coupling variables---associated with these configurations can substantially increase mixing while still sampling from the desired distributions. We show how state update methods in common use lead to suboptimal mixing, and present some simple, inexpensive alternatives that can increase mixing of the overall Markov chain, reducing simulation times necessary to obtain estimates of the desired precision. These improved schemes are demonstrated for several common applications, including an alchemical expanded ensemble simulation, parallel tempering, and multidimensional replica exchange umbrella sampling.

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