A Picture is Worth a Thousand Timesteps: Excess Entropy Scaling for Rapid Estimation of Diffusion Coefficients in Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Fluids
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Abstract
In molecular-dynamics simulations of fluids, the Einstein-Helfand (EH) and Green-Kubo (GK) relationships are frequently used to compute a variety of transport coefficients, including diffusion coefficients. These relationships are formally valid in the limit of infinite sampling time: The error in the estimate of a transport coefficient (relative to an infinitely long simulation) asymptotically approaches zero as more dynamics are simulated and recorded. In practice, of course, one can only simulate a finite number of particles for a finite amount of time. In this work, we show that in this pre-asymptotic regime, an approach for estimating diffusion coefficients based upon excess entropy scaling (EES) achieves a significantly lower error than either EH or GK relationships at fixed online sampling time. This approach requires access only to structural information at the level of the radial distribution function (RDF). We further demonstrate that the use of a recently developed RDF mollification scheme significantly reduces the amount of sampling time needed to converge to the long-time value of the diffusion coefficient. We also demonstrate favorable sample-to-sample variances in the diffusion coefficient estimate obtained using EES as compared to those obtained using EH and GK.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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