Reconstruction of the free energy in the metastable region using the path ensemble

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4804-4809

  Bustillos, Armando Ticona ^a   Heermann, Dieter W ^b   Cordeiro, Claudette E ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUENCHING; THERMODYNAMICS;

MEAN-FIELD THEORY; METASTABILITY; TIME-DEPENDENT DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 4544229463     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1778372     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. R. Becker and W. Döring, Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 24, 719 (1935).
2. Nucleation Theory, edited by A. C. Zettlemoyer (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1969).
3. F. F. Abraham, Homogeneous Nucleation Theory (Academic, New York, 1974).
4. K. Binder and D. Stauffer, Adv. Phys. 25, 343 (1976).
5. J. D. Gunton, M. San Miguel, and P. S. Sahini, in Phase Transitons and Critical Phenomena, edited by C. Domb and J. L. Lebowitz (Academic, New York, 1983), Vol. 8.
6. C. H. Bennett, J. Comput. Phys. 22, 245 (1976).
7. P. A. Rikvold and B. M. Gorma, in Annual Reviews of Computational Physics I, edited by D. Stauffer (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994).
8. K. Binder, in Phase Transformations in Materials, Materials Science and Technology Vol. 5, edited by P. Haasen (VCH, Weinheim, 1991); Dynamics of Ordering Processes in Condensed Matter, edited by S. Komura and H. Furukawa (Plenum Press, New York, 1991).
9. K. Binder, in Phase Transformations in Materials, Materials Science and Technology Vol. 5, edited by P. Haasen (VCH, Weinheim, 1991); Dynamics of Ordering Processes in Condensed Matter, edited by S. Komura and H. Furukawa (Plenum Press, New York, 1991).
10. P. A. Rikvold, G. Korniss, C. J. White, M. A. Novotny, and S. W. Sides, in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics XII, Springer Proceedings in Physics Vol. 85, edited by D. P. Landau, S. P. Lewis, and H. B. Schttler (Springer, Berlin, 2000), p. 105.
11. G. Sewell, Phys. Rep. 57, 307 (1980).
12. D. W. Heermann and W. Klein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1062 (1983).
13. K. Kaski, K. Binder, and J. D. Gunton, Phys. Rev. B 29, 3996 (1984).
14. J. S. Langer, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 54, 258 (1969).
15. K. Binder, Physica A 319, 99 (2003).
16. M. Kolesik, M. A. Novotny, and P. A. Rikvold, e-print cond-mat/0207405.
17. M. A. Novotny, M. Kolesik, and P. A. Rikvold, Comput. Phys. Commun. 121-122, 330 (1999).
18. W. Paul and D. W. Heermann, Europhys. Lett. 6, 701 (1988).
19. W. Paul, D. W. Heermann, and K. Binder, J. Phys. A 22, 3325 (1989).
20. A. L. Talapov and H. W. J. Blöte, J. Phys. A 29, 5727 (1996).
21. D. W. Heermann, Computer Simulation Methods in Theoretical Physics, 2nd ed. (Springer, Heidelberg, 1990).
22. K. Binder and D. W. Heermann, Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics, 4th ed. (Springer, Heidelberg, 2002).
23. R. J. Glauber, J. Math. Phys. 4, 294 (1963).
24. V. I. Manousiouthakis and M. W. Deem, J. Chem. Phys. 110, 2753 (1999).
25. I. Shteto, J. Linares, and F. Varret, Phys. Rev. E 56, 5128 (1997).
26. D. W. Heermann and A. N. Burkitt, Physica A 162, 210 (1990).