Abstract
A previous article proposed an electronic structure-based polarizable potential, called the explicit polarization (X-POL) potential, to treat many-body polarization and charge delocalization effects in polypeptides. Here, we present a variational version of the X-POL potential, in which the wave function of the entire molecular system is variationally optimized to yield the minimum total electronic energy. This allows the calculation of analytic gradients, a necessity for efficient molecular dynamics simulations. In this paper, the detailed derivations of the Fock matrix and analytic force are presented and discussed. The calculations involve a double self-consistent-field procedure in which the wave function of each fragment is self-consistently optimized in the presence of other fragments, and in addition the polarization of the entire system is self-consistently optimized. The variational X-POL potential has been implemented in the Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics (CHARMM) package and tested successfully for small model compounds.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 234108 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 128 |
Issue number | 23 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (GM46736), the Office of Naval Research under Grant No. N00012-05-01-0538, and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE07-04974.