Efficient Monte Carlo sampling by direct flattening of free energy barriers

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 311-340

  Besold, Gerhard ^a   Risbo, Jens ^a,b   Mouritsen, Ole G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asymmetric first order phase transitions; Binary lipid bilayers; Histograms; Interfacial melting; Monte Carlo simulation; Multicanonical sampling; Non Boltzmann sampling; Shape functions; Spectral free energies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001742904     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-0256(99)00023-3     Document Type: Article

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