Abstract
An explicit Split Integration Symplectic Method (SISM) for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is described. This work is an extension of an efficient symplectic integration algorithm introduced by Janežic and Merzel (J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1995, 35, 321−326). SISM is based on splitting of the total Hamiltonian of the system into a harmonic part and the remaining part in such a way that both parts can be efficiently computed. The Hamilton equations of motion are then solved using the second order generalized leap-frog integration scheme in which the high-frequency motions are treated analytically by the normal mode analysis which is carried out only once, at the beginning of the calculation. SISM requires only one force evaluation per integration step; the computation cost per integration step is approximately the same as that of the standard leap-frog-Verlet (LFV) method, and it allows an integration time step up to an order of magnitude larger than can be used by other methods of the same order and ...
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