Berendsen thermostat

Berendsen thermostat

The Berendsen thermostat [cite journal | first=H. J. C. | last=Berendsen | coauthors=Postma, JPM; Van Gunsteren, WF; Dinola, A; Haak, JR | journal=Journal of Chemical Physics | title=Molecular-Dynamics with Coupling to an External Bath | year=1984 | volume=81 | issue=8 | pages=3684–3690 | doi=10.1063/1.448118 ] is an algorithm to re-scale the velocities of particles in molecular dynamics simulations to control the simulation temperature.

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