Abstract
Several parallel adaptive biasing methods are applied to the calculation of free-energy pathways along reaction coordinates, choosing as a difficult example the double-funnel landscape of the 38-atom Lennard-Jones cluster. In the case of classical statistics, the Wang-Landau and adaptively biased molecular-dynamics (ABMD) methods are both found efficient if multiple walkers and replication and deletion schemes are used. An extension of the ABMD technique to quantum systems, implemented through the path-integral MD framework, is presented and tested on Ne38 against the quantum superposition method.
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