Abstract
The treatment of slow and rare transitions in the simulation of complex systems poses a great computational challenge. A powerful approach to tackle this challenge is the string method, which represents the transition path as a one-dimensional curve in a multidimensional space of collective variables. Commonly used strategies for pathway optimization include aligning the tangent of the string to the local mean force or to the mean drift determined from swarms of short trajectories. Here, a novel strategy is proposed, allowing the string to be optimized based on a variational principle involving the unidirectional reactive flux expressed in terms of the time-correlation function of the committor. The method is illustrated with model systems and then probed with the alanine dipeptide and a coarse-grained model of the barstar-barnase protein complex. Successive iterations variationally refine the string toward an optimal transition pathway following the gradient of the committor between two metastable states.
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