Thermostats
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 a thermostat that correctly samples the canonical ensemble, for example, the Bussi-Donadio-Parrinello thermostat.
List of thermostats
- Andersen thermostat
- Allen-Schmid thermostat
- Berendsen thermostat
- Braga-Travis thermostat
- Bussi-Donadio-Parrinello thermostat
- Colored-noise thermostat
- Dissipative particle dynamics
- Evans-Morriss thermostat
- Gaussian thermostat
- Langevin thermostat
- Lowe-Andersen thermostat
- Nosé-Hoover thermostat
- Nosé-Hoover-Langevin thermostat
- Nosé–Poincaré thermostat
- Path integral Langevin equation thermostat
- Patra-Bhattacharya thermostat
- Stoyanov-Groot thermostat
Related reading
- 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)
- Denis J. Evans, Debra J. Searles, and Stephen R. Williams "Musings on thermostats", Journal of Chemical Physics 133 104106 (2010)
- 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)