TY - JOUR
T1 - Improvement of performance, stability and continuity by modified size-consistent multipartitioning quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical method
AU - Watanabe, Hiroshi C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17K15101 and JST PRESTO Grant Number JPMJPR17GC. The computations were performed using the TSUBAME Encouragement Program for Young/Female Users of Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-Scale Information Infrastructures in Japan.
Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17K15101 and JST PRESTO Grant Number JPMJPR17GC.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the author.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - For condensed systems, the incorporation of quantum chemical solvent effects into molecular dynamics simulations has been a major concern. To this end, quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) techniques are popular and powerful options to treat gigantic systems. However, they cannot be directly applied because of temporal and spatial discontinuity problems. To overcome these problems, in a previous study, we proposed a corrective QM/MM method, size-consistent multipartitioning (SCMP) QM/MM and successfully demonstrated that, using SCMP, it is possible to perform stable molecular dynamics simulations by effectively taking into account solvent quantum chemical effects. The SCMP method is characterized by two original features: size-consistency of a QM region among all QM/MM partitioning and partitioning update. However, in our previous study, the performance was not fully elicited compared to the theoretical upper bound and the optimal partitioning update protocol and parameters were not fully verified. To elicit the potential performance, in the present study, we simplified the theoretical framework and modified the partitioning protocol.
AB - For condensed systems, the incorporation of quantum chemical solvent effects into molecular dynamics simulations has been a major concern. To this end, quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) techniques are popular and powerful options to treat gigantic systems. However, they cannot be directly applied because of temporal and spatial discontinuity problems. To overcome these problems, in a previous study, we proposed a corrective QM/MM method, size-consistent multipartitioning (SCMP) QM/MM and successfully demonstrated that, using SCMP, it is possible to perform stable molecular dynamics simulations by effectively taking into account solvent quantum chemical effects. The SCMP method is characterized by two original features: size-consistency of a QM region among all QM/MM partitioning and partitioning update. However, in our previous study, the performance was not fully elicited compared to the theoretical upper bound and the optimal partitioning update protocol and parameters were not fully verified. To elicit the potential performance, in the present study, we simplified the theoretical framework and modified the partitioning protocol.
KW - Adaptive QM/MM
KW - Condensed matter
KW - Molecular dynamics
KW - Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics
KW - Solvation
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U2 - 10.3390/molecules23081882
DO - 10.3390/molecules23081882
M3 - Article
C2 - 30060503
AN - SCOPUS:85052617179
VL - 23
JO - Molecules
JF - Molecules
SN - 1420-3049
IS - 8
M1 - 1882
ER -