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The OPES module contains the implementation of the on-the-fly probability enhanced sampling mehtod (OPES) [58] [59] [60].
The OPES method aims at sampling a given target distribution over the configuration space, \(p^{\text{tg}}(\mathbf{x})\), different from the equilibrium Boltzmann distribution, \(P(\mathbf{x})\propto e^{-\beta U(\mathbf{x})}\). To do so, it incrementally builds a bias potential \(V(\mathbf{x})\), by estimating on-the-fly the needed probability distributions:
\[ V(\mathbf{x}) = -\frac{1}{\beta}\log\frac{p^{\text{tg}}(\mathbf{x})}{P(\mathbf{x})}\, . \]
The bias quickly becomes quasi-static and the desired properties, such as the free energy, can be calculated with a simple reweighting REWEIGHT_BIAS.
Depending on the kind of target distribution one wishes to sample, different OPES biases can be used.
This module is not installed by default. Add '--enable-modules=opes' to your './configure' command when building PLUMED to enable these features. See also List of modules.
The OPES module contains three bias actions, OPES_METAD and OPES_METAD_EXPLORE that sample metadynamics-like target distributions (e.g. the well-tempered one), and OPES_EXPANDED that samples expanded ensembles target distributions (replica-exchange-like). It also contains various expansion collective variables (ECVs) to define such expanded targets.
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