Thermostats
The following is a list of thermostats used to maintain (more or less) constant temperature in molecular dynamics simulations.
- Andersen thermostat
- Allen-Schmid thermostat
- Berendsen 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–Poincaré thermostat
- Path integral Langevin equation 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)