The rubber band revisited: Wang-Landau simulation

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2012/10/P10028zbMATH Open1459.82348arXiv1207.2121OpenAlexW1971030414MaRDI QIDQ3301295FDOQ3301295

Authors: L. S. Ferreira, A. A. Caparica, Minos A. Neto, Mircea Galiceanu 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we apply Wang-Landau simulations to a simple model which has exact solutions both in the microcanonical and canonical formalisms. The simulations were carried out by using an updated version of the Wang-Landau sampling. We consider a homopolymer chain consisting of $N$ monomers units which may assume any configuration on the two-dimensional lattice. By imposing constraints to the moves of the polymers we obtain three different models. Our results show that updating the density of states only after every $N$ monomers moves leads to a better precision. We obtain the specific heat and the end-to-end distance per monomer and test the precision of our simulations comparing the location of the maximum of the specific heat with the exact results for the three types of walks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2121

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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