Publications de Federico Giberti

Global Free-Energy Landscapes as a Smoothly Joined Collection of Local Maps

Michele Ceriotti, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Federico Giberti

Enhanced sampling techniques have become an essential tool in computational chemistry and physics, where they are applied to sample activated processes that occur on a time scale that is inaccessible to conventional simulations. Despite their popularity, i ...

2021

Iterative Unbiasing of Quasi-Equilibrium Sampling

Michele Ceriotti, Bingqing Cheng, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Federico Giberti

Atomistic modeling of phase transitions, chemical reactions, or other rare events that involve overcoming high free energy barriers usually entails prohibitively long simulation times. Introducing a bias potential as a function of an appropriately chosen s ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Atomic Motif Recognition in (Bio)Polymers: Benchmarks From the Protein Data Bank

Michele Ceriotti, Piero Gasparotto, Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht, Federico Giberti

Rationalizing the structure and structure–property relations for complex materials such as polymers or biomolecules relies heavily on the identification of local atomic motifs, e.g., hydrogen bonds and secondary structure patterns, that are seen as buildin ...

2019

Modeling Superlattices of Dipolar and Polarizable Semiconducting Nanoparticles

Federico Giberti

We present an analytical model to describe the stability of arbitrary semiconducting nanoparticle (NP) superlattices as a function of the dipole and polarizability of their constituents. We first validate our model by comparison with density functional the ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

The Role of Quantum Effects on Structural and Electronic Fluctuations in Neat and Charged Water

Michele Parrinello, Michele Ceriotti, Federico Giberti

In this work, we revisit the role of nuclear quantum effects on the structural and electronic properties of the excess proton in bulk liquid water using advanced molecular dynamics techniques. The hydronium ion is known to be a weak acceptor of a hydrogen ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Fast Crystallization of the Phase Change Compound GeTe by Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Giacomo Francesco Leonardo Miceli, Federico Giberti

Phase change materials are of great interest as active layers in rewritable optical disks and novel electronic nonvolatile memories. These applications rest on a fast and reversible transformation between the amorphous and crystalline phases upon heating, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013