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Maximum entropy reconstruction of the configurational density of states from microcanonical simulations

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, , Citation Sergio Davis 2013 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 410 012161 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/410/1/012161

1742-6596/410/1/012161

Abstract

In this work we develop a method for inferring the underlying configurational density of states of a molecular system by combining information from several microcanonical molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations at different energies. This method is based on Jaynes' Maximum Entropy formalism (MaxEnt) for Bayesian statistical inference under known expectation values. We present results of its application to measure thermodynamic entropy and free energy differences in embedded-atom models of metals.

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10.1088/1742-6596/410/1/012161