Free-Energy Perturbation

• Widom method is an example of a free-energy perturbation (FEP) technique

• FEP gives free-energy difference between two systems

  • labeled 0, 1

• Working equation

• Sample the region important to 0 system, measure properties of 1 system

G

0

1

Write as reference-system ensemble average

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