Berendsen thermostat

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The Berendsen thermostat[1] is an algorithm to re-scale the velocities of particles in molecular dynamics simulations to control the simulation temperature.

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  1. ^ Berendsen, H. J. C.; Postma, JPM; Van Gunsteren, WF; Dinola, A; Haak, JR (1984). "Molecular-Dynamics with Coupling to an External Bath". Journal of Chemical Physics 81 (8): 3684–3690. doi:10.1063/1.448118.