Coarse graining of nonbonded degrees of freedom
Coarse graining of nonbonded degrees of freedom
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.98.267801
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发表时间:
2007-06-29
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Klapp, S. H. L.
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作者:
Bock, H.;Gubbins, K. E.;Klapp, S. H. L.
We investigate the physical meaning of coarse-grained beads generated by coarse graining of nonbonded particles such as solvent molecules in a solution. Starting from the partition function, we analytically coarse grain an N-particle fluid to a system containing N-2 of the original particles plus a bead representing the two remaining particles. As a direct consequence of the lack of bonding interactions, the resulting effective potential becomes independent of the bead coordinates, i.e., ideal-gas-like, in the thermodynamic limit. Thus, there are no conservative forces between coarse-grained beads representing assemblies of nonbonded molecules nor between these beads and any other species in the system.