Advanced multicanonical Monte Carlo methods for efficient simulations of nucleation processes of polymers

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2011.02.018zbMATH Open1220.82184OpenAlexW2136153195MaRDI QIDQ550892FDOQ550892

Authors: Stefan Schnabel, Wolfhard Janke, Michael Bachmann 

Publication date: 13 July 2011

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The investigation of freezing transitions of single polymers is computationally demanding, since surface effects dominate the nucleation process. In recent studies we have systematically shown that the freezing properties of flexible, elastic polymers depend on the precise chain length. Performing multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations, we faced several computational challenges in connection with liquid-solid and solid-solid transitions. For this reason, we developed novel methods and update strategies to overcome the arising problems. We introduce novel Monte Carlo moves and two extensions to the multicanonical method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4015

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zbMATH Keywords

polymer crystallizationLennard-Jones clusterconformational transitionMackay layerMonte Carlo computer simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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