Water in nanopores and biological channels: a molecular simulation perspective

CI Lynch, S Rao, MSP Sansom - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Review explores the dynamic behavior of water within nanopores and biological
channels in lipid bilayer membranes. We focus on molecular simulation studies, alongside …

Interatomic potentials: Achievements and challenges

MH Müser, SV Sukhomlinov, L Pastewka - Advances in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Interatomic potentials approximate the potential energy of atoms as a function of their
coordinates. Their main application is the effective simulation of many-atom systems. Here …

Thermotropic liquid crystal-assisted chemical and biological sensors

N Popov, LW Honaker, M Popova, N Usol'tseva… - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
In this review article, we analyze recent progress in the application of liquid crystal-assisted
advanced functional materials for sensing biological and chemical analytes. Multiple …

The importance of the water molecular quadrupole for estimating interfacial potential shifts acting on ions near the liquid–vapor interface

CC Doyle, Y Shi, TL Beck - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
Interfacial electrostatic potential gradients arise from nonuniform charge distributions
encountered crossing the interface. The charges involved can include the molecular …

A FFLUX water model: Flexible, polarizable and with a multipolar description of electrostatics

ZE Hughes, E Ren, JCR Thacker… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Key to progress in molecular simulation is the development of advanced models that go
beyond the limitations of traditional force fields that employ a fixed, point charge‐based …

Coarse-grained intermolecular interactions on quantum processors

LW Anderson, M Kiffner, PK Barkoutsos, I Tavernelli… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are increasingly being applied in simulations of
strongly bound (covalently bonded) systems using full molecular orbital basis …

Structure and hydrogen bonding at the limits of liquid water stability

F Cipcigan, V Sokhan, G Martyna, J Crain - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Liquid water exhibits unconventional behaviour across its wide range of stability–from its
unusually high liquid-vapour critical point down to its melting point and below where it …

Electronic coarse graining: Predictive atomistic modeling of condensed matter

FS Cipcigan, J Crain, VP Sokhan, GJ Martyna - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Atoms and molecules adapt to their environment through a rich hierarchy of electronic
responses. These include dipolar many-body polarization contributions arising in the …

A Quantum Information Perspective on Many-Body Dispersive Forces

C Willby, M Kiffner, J Tindall, J Crain… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite its ubiquity, many-body dispersion remains poorly understood. Here we investigate
the distribution of entanglement in quantum Drude oscillator assemblies, minimal models for …

Simulation of large molecular systems with electronically-derived forces

J Castangna, F Martelli, KE Jordan, J Crain - Computer Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many-body electronic responses such as dispersion and polarization (at and beyond dipole
order) present fundamental challenges in the simulation of materials at the molecular scale …