Improved Wang-Landau sampling through the use of smoothed potential-energy surfaces

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Nguyen, Phuong H ^a   Mittag, Emil ^b,c   Torda, Andrew E ^b   Stock, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROTEINS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS; DENSITY OF STATES; WANG-LANDAU SAMPLING; WANG-LANDAU SIMULATIONS;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

EID: 34547554621     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2191060     Document Type: Article

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