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Unpublished Paper
Spatial Multi-Level Interacting Particle Simulations and Information Theory-Based Error Quantification
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2014)
  • Evangelia Kalligiannaki
  • Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Petr Plechac
Abstract
We propose a hierarchy of two-level kinetic Monte Carlo methods for sampling high-dimensional, stochastic lattice particle dynamics with complex interactions. The method is based on the efficient coupling of different spatial resolution levels, taking advantage of the low sampling cost in a coarse space and developing local reconstruction strategies from coarse-grained dynamics. Furthermore, a natural extension to a multilevel kinetic coarse-grained Monte Carlo is presented. Microscopic reconstruction corrects possibly significant errors introduced through coarse-graining, leading to the controlled-error approximation of the sampled stochastic process. In this manner, the proposed algorithm overcomes known shortcomings of coarse-graining of particle systems with complex interactions such as combined long- and short-range particle interactions and/or complex lattice geometries. Specifically, we provide error analysis for the approximation of long-time stationary dynamics in terms of relative entropy, measuring the information loss of the path measures per unit time. We show that this observable either can be estimated a priori, or it can be tracked computationally a posteriori in the course of a simulation. The stationary regime is of critical importance to molecular simulations as it is relevant to long-time sampling, obtaining phase diagrams, and in studying metastability properties of high-dimensional complex systems. Finally, the multilevel nature of the method provides flexibility in combining rejection-free and null-event implementations, generating a hierarchy of algorithms with an adjustable number of rejections that includes well-known rejection-free and null-event algorithms. Read More: http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/120887060
Keywords
  • kinetic Monte Carlo,
  • course graining,
  • multiple scales,
  • multiple scales,
  • phase transition,
  • information theory,
  • multi-level methods,
  • relative entropy,
  • error analysis
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Comments
Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/120887060
Citation Information
Evangelia Kalligiannaki, Markos Katsoulakis and Petr Plechac. "Spatial Multi-Level Interacting Particle Simulations and Information Theory-Based Error Quantification" SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/markos_katsoulakis/60/