Recently a non-empirical stochastic walker algorithm has been developed to search for the minimum-energy escape paths from the minima of the potential surface (Akashi and Nagornov, 2018;Nagornov and Akashi, 2019). Thi...
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Recently a non-empirical stochastic walker algorithm has been developed to search for the minimum-energy escape paths from the minima of the potential surface (Akashi and Nagornov, 2018;Nagornov and Akashi, 2019). This method is based on the Master equation for the distribution function of the atomic configuration which has a nature to seek the reaction path up along the valley of the potential surface. This paper introduces AtomREM (Atomistic Rare Event Manager), which is an mpiparallelized solver program package for executing this method, which yields reaction pathways in terms of the microscopic evolution of atomic positions. It is open-source and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). A feature AtomREM interfaces with the LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator as a library of versatile potential functions for application to various systems. Examples of the applications to molecular and solid systems are presented. Program summary Program Title: AtomREM (Atomistic Rare-Event Manager) Program Files doi: http://***/10.17632/ys5mpgjfc8.1 Licensing provisions: GNU General Public License 3 Programming language: Fortran 90 and C Supplementary material: Result movies of simulation for argon solid and (CH2)(4) molecule Nature of problem: AtomREM has been developed to help to find a reaction path on the atomic level using weighted Langevin mechanics on the inverse potential landscape. The method describes the low temperature transformation of complex systems without artificial forces or/and collective variables. Solution method: Recently [1] we designed a non-empirical scheme to search for the minimum-energy escape paths from the minima of the potential surface to unknown saddle points nearby with one dimensional application. The method is based on the Master equation and its solver algorithm is constructed to move the walkers up the surface through the potential valleys [2]. The stochastic algorithm uses a birth/death stochastic processes for numerous
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