Nose-Hoover thermostat

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In the approach by Nosé and Hoover[1][2][3] an extra degree of freedom is introduced in the Hamiltonian. The heat bath is considered as an integral part of the system and has a fictious coordinate which is introduced into the Lagrangian of the system. This Lagrangian for an is written as


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