Thermodynamic Interpolation: A generative approach to molecular thermodynamics and kinetics

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Title: Thermodynamic Interpolation: A generative approach to molecular thermodynamics and kinetics
Authors: Moqvist, Selma, Chen, Weilong, Schreiner, Mathias, Nüske, Feliks, Olsson, Simon
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: Physics (Other)
Subject Terms: Physics - Chemical Physics
More Details: Using normalizing flows and reweighting, Boltzmann Generators enable equilibrium sampling from a Boltzmann distribution, defined by an energy function and thermodynamic state. In this work, we introduce Thermodynamic Interpolation (TI), which allows for generating sampling statistics in a temperature-controllable way. We introduce TI flavors that work directly in the ambient configurational space, mapping between different thermodynamic states or through a latent, normally distributed reference state. Our ambient-space approach allows for the specification of arbitrary target temperatures, ensuring generalizability within the temperature range of the training set and demonstrating the potential for extrapolation beyond it. We validate the effectiveness of TI on model systems that exhibit metastability and non-trivial temperature dependencies. Finally, we demonstrate how to combine TI-based sampling to estimate free energy differences through various free energy perturbation methods and provide corresponding approximated kinetic rates estimated through generator extended dynamic mode decomposition (gEDMD).
Comment: 36 pages, 8 figures
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10075
Accession Number: edsarx.2411.10075
Database: arXiv
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