Coarse-Grained Force Fields via Rotational Entropy Corrections to Free Energy Landscapes of Diffusing Molecules

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Main Authors: Hall, J. M., Guenza, M. G.
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author Hall, J. M.
Guenza, M. G.
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Guenza, M. G.
contents The construction of accurate interatomic potentials, and related fields of forces, from equilibrium conformational distributions of molecules is a crucial step in coarse-grained modeling. In this work we show that in order to develop accurate lab-frame force fields that preserve translational and rotational diffusion of a molecule, the observed body-fixed free energy landscape must be corrected for conformation-dependent rotational entropy to isolate the potential energy surface. We further demonstrate that even when the instantaneous effects of the correction are small, the resulting lagged correlations of the modeled force can be greatly altered and hence the correction is especially vital when parameterizing friction coefficients using modeled interatomic potentials.
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spellingShingle Coarse-Grained Force Fields via Rotational Entropy Corrections to Free Energy Landscapes of Diffusing Molecules
Hall, J. M.
Guenza, M. G.
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
The construction of accurate interatomic potentials, and related fields of forces, from equilibrium conformational distributions of molecules is a crucial step in coarse-grained modeling. In this work we show that in order to develop accurate lab-frame force fields that preserve translational and rotational diffusion of a molecule, the observed body-fixed free energy landscape must be corrected for conformation-dependent rotational entropy to isolate the potential energy surface. We further demonstrate that even when the instantaneous effects of the correction are small, the resulting lagged correlations of the modeled force can be greatly altered and hence the correction is especially vital when parameterizing friction coefficients using modeled interatomic potentials.
title Coarse-Grained Force Fields via Rotational Entropy Corrections to Free Energy Landscapes of Diffusing Molecules
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12592