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The following is a list of '''thermostats''' used to maintain (more or less) constant the average [[temperature]] in [[molecular dynamics]] simulations. Note that thermostats may introduce artificial behaviour into the system so one has to be careful. It is probably worthwhile using
The following is a list of '''thermostats''' used to maintain (more or less) constant [[temperature]] in [[molecular dynamics]] simulations.
a thermostat that correctly samples the [[canonical ensemble]], for example, the [[Bussi-Donadio-Parrinello thermostat]].
==List of thermostats==
*[[Andersen thermostat]]
*[[Andersen thermostat]]
*[[Allen-Schmid thermostat]]
*[[Allen-Schmid thermostat]]
*[[Berendsen thermostat]]
*[[Berendsen thermostat]]
*[[Braga-Travis thermostat]]
*[[Bussi-Donadio-Parrinello thermostat]]
*[[Bussi-Donadio-Parrinello thermostat]]
*[[Colored-noise thermostat]]
*[[Colored-noise thermostat]]
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*[[Gaussian thermostat]]
*[[Gaussian thermostat]]
*[[Langevin thermostat]]
*[[Langevin thermostat]]
*[[Logarithmic oscillator thermostat]]
*[[Lowe-Andersen thermostat]]
*[[Lowe-Andersen thermostat]]
*[[Nosé-Hoover thermostat]]
*[[Nosé-Hoover thermostat]]
*[[Nosé-Hoover-Langevin thermostat]]
*[[Nosé–Poincaré thermostat]]
*[[Nosé–Poincaré thermostat]]
*[[Path integral Langevin equation thermostat]]
*[[Patra-Bhattacharya thermostat]]
*[[Stoyanov-Groot thermostat]]
*[[Stoyanov-Groot thermostat]]
==Related reading==
==Related reading==
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b99427 Philippe H. Hünenberger "Thermostat Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics Simulations", in "Advanced Computer Simulation: Approaches for Soft Matter Sciences I" Advances in Polymer Science '''173''' pp. 105-149 (2005)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b99427 Philippe H. Hünenberger "Thermostat Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics Simulations", in "Advanced Computer Simulation: Approaches for Soft Matter Sciences I" Advances in Polymer Science '''173''' pp. 105-149 (2005)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3486092  Denis J. Evans, Debra J. Searles, and Stephen R. Williams  "Musings on thermostats", Journal of Chemical Physics '''133''' 104106 (2010)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3486092  Denis J. Evans, Debra J. Searles, and Stephen R. Williams  "Musings on thermostats", Journal of Chemical Physics '''133''' 104106 (2010)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-011-0210-2  Benedict Leimkuhler, Emad Noorizadeh, and Oliver Penrose  "Comparing the Efficiencies of Stochastic Isothermal Molecular Dynamics Methods", Journal of Statistical Physics '''143''' pp. 921-942 (2011)]
[[category: Molecular dynamics]]
[[category: Molecular dynamics]]
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