Estimating entropies from molecular dynamics simulations.

نویسندگان

  • Christine Peter
  • Chris Oostenbrink
  • Arthur van Dorp
  • Wilfred F van Gunsteren
چکیده

While the determination of free-energy differences by MD simulation has become a standard procedure for which many techniques have been developed, total entropies and entropy differences are still hardly ever computed. An overview of techniques to determine entropy differences is given, and the accuracy and convergence behavior of five methods based on thermodynamic integration and perturbation techniques was evaluated using liquid water as a test system. Reasonably accurate entropy differences are obtained through thermodynamic integration in which many copies of a solute are desolvated. When only one solute molecule is involved, only two methods seem to yield useful results, the calculation of solute-solvent entropy through thermodynamic integration, and the calculation of solvation entropy through the temperature derivative of the corresponding free-energy difference. One-step perturbation methods seem unsuitable to obtain entropy estimates.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of chemical physics

دوره 120 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004