Langevin molecular dynamics derived from ehrenfest dynamics

摘要

Stochastic Langevin molecular dynamics for nuclei is derived from the Ehrenfest Hamiltonian system (also called quantum classical molecular dynamics) in a KacZwanzig setting, with the initial data for the electrons stochastically perturbed from the ground state and the ratio M of nuclei and electron mass tending to infinity. The Ehrenfest nuclei dynamics is approximated by the Langevin dynamics with accuracy o(M~(-1/2)) on bounded time intervals and by o(1) on unbounded time intervals, which makes the small O(M~(-1/2)) friction and o(M~(-1/2)) diffusion terms visible. The initial electron probability distribution is a Gibbs density at low temperature, motivated by a stability and consistency argument. The diffusion and friction coefficients in the Langevin equation satisfy the Einstein's fluctuationdissipation relation.