DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03515h ISSN:

Energy-conserving molecular dynamics is not energy conserving

Lina Zhang, Yi-Fan Hou, Fuchun Ge, Pavlo O. Dral
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • General Physics and Astronomy

Molecular dynamics is often simulation-energy conserving but the quality of calculations is still unsatisfactory. It is more conducive to focus on evaluating and improving the theoretical best estimate of total-energy time evolution.

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