Time-Asymmetric Fluctuation Theorem and Efficient Free Energy Estimation

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Main Authors: Zhong, Adrianne, Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin, DeWeese, Michael R.
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author Zhong, Adrianne
Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin
DeWeese, Michael R.
author_facet Zhong, Adrianne
Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin
DeWeese, Michael R.
contents The free-energy difference $ΔF$ between two high-dimensional systems is notoriously difficult to compute, but very important for many applications, such as drug discovery. We demonstrate that an unconventional definition of work introduced by Vaikuntanathan and Jarzynski (2008) satisfies a microscopic fluctuation theorem that relates path ensembles that are driven by protocols unequal under time-reversal. It has been shown before that counterdiabatic protocols -- those having additional forcing that enforces the system to remain in instantaneous equilibrium, also known as escorted dynamics or engineered swift equilibration -- yield zero-variance work measurements for this definition. We show that this time-asymmetric microscopic fluctuation theorem can be exploited for efficient free energy estimation by developing a simple (i.e., neural-network free) and efficient adaptive time-asymmetric protocol optimization algorithm that yields $ΔF$ estimates that are orders of magnitude lower in mean squared error than the generic linear interpolation protocol with which it is initialized.
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spellingShingle Time-Asymmetric Fluctuation Theorem and Efficient Free Energy Estimation
Zhong, Adrianne
Kuznets-Speck, Benjamin
DeWeese, Michael R.
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Computational Physics
The free-energy difference $ΔF$ between two high-dimensional systems is notoriously difficult to compute, but very important for many applications, such as drug discovery. We demonstrate that an unconventional definition of work introduced by Vaikuntanathan and Jarzynski (2008) satisfies a microscopic fluctuation theorem that relates path ensembles that are driven by protocols unequal under time-reversal. It has been shown before that counterdiabatic protocols -- those having additional forcing that enforces the system to remain in instantaneous equilibrium, also known as escorted dynamics or engineered swift equilibration -- yield zero-variance work measurements for this definition. We show that this time-asymmetric microscopic fluctuation theorem can be exploited for efficient free energy estimation by developing a simple (i.e., neural-network free) and efficient adaptive time-asymmetric protocol optimization algorithm that yields $ΔF$ estimates that are orders of magnitude lower in mean squared error than the generic linear interpolation protocol with which it is initialized.
title Time-Asymmetric Fluctuation Theorem and Efficient Free Energy Estimation
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12287