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Accelerating equilibrium isotope effect calculations. I. Stochastic thermodynamic integration with respect to mass

Karandashev, Konstantin  
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Vanicek, Jiri  
2017
Journal of Chemical Physics

Accurate path integral Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics calculations of isotope effects have until recently been expensive because of the necessity to reduce three types of errors present in such calculations: statistical errors due to sampling, path integral discretization errors, and thermodynamic integration errors. While the statistical errors can be reduced with virial estimators and path integral discretization errors with high-order factorization of the Boltzmann operator, here we propose a method for accelerating isotope effect calculations by eliminating the integration error. We show that the integration error can be removed entirely by changing particle masses stochastically during the calculation and by using a piecewise linear umbrella biasing potential. Moreover, we demonstrate numerically that this approach does not increase the statistical error. The resulting acceleration of isotope effect calculations is demonstrated on a model harmonic system and on deuterated species of methane.

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