Documentation and reviews

This Ph.D. thesis contains a thorough introduction to the GLE thermostat, which includes some background on stochastic differential equations and a number of example applications.

A brief introduction to colored noise sampling for molecular dynamics is given in the February 2014 highlight of the Psi-K newsletter, while the lecture notes for the 2015 Juelich school give a discussion specific to the simulation of nuclear quantum effects. The atomistic cookbook contains several recipes using GLE thermostats, especially for use in path integral molecular dynamics.

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References

Slides and posters

A few (dated) posters and presentations introducing colored noise and Generalized Langevin Equation thermostats.

poster-lugano10 "Nuclear quantum effects the colored way" Poster presented in Lugano for the CECAM workshop "Quantum Monte Carlo meets Quantum Chemistry" (2010). Example application of the "quantum thermostat" to estimate nuclear quantum effects in condensed-phase systems. Download PDF
slides-zurich10 "A novel framework for enhanced molecular dynamics based on the generalized Langevin equation" Slides presented for M. Ceriotti's Ph.D. dissertation. General overview of both canonical sampling and non-equilibrium GLE thermostats. Download PDF
slides-lugano10 "A tutorial on the Generalized Langevin Thermostat" Slides for a group seminar. Introduction to the GLE, and thorough discussion of thermostat issues in the simulation of liquid water (classical, flexible forcefield). Download PDF
poster-julich09 "A tunable, all-purpose colored-noise thermostat" Poster presented at Jülich, for the winter school "Multiscale simulation methods in molecular sciences" (2009). Applications of GLE thermostat to efficient sampling and to Car-Parrinello dynamics. Download PDF