Fast off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations with "soft" repulsive potentials

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Qiang ^a   Yin, Yuhua ^a,b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; SPECTROMETRY;

BASIC IDEAS; CHAIN MODELS; CHAIN RELAXATIONS; COARSE-GRAINED MODELS; CONFIGURATIONAL SPACES; EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES; EXCLUDED-VOLUME INTERACTIONS; HOMOPOLYMER MELTS; LATTICE MONTE CARLO; LATTICE MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI-CHAIN SYSTEMS; PAIR POTENTIALS; PARAMETER FITTINGS; PARTICLE OVERLAPPING; POLYMER FIELDS; RANDOM-PHASE APPROXIMATIONS; REPULSIVE POTENTIALS; SAMPLING EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SOFT MATERIALS; SOFT POTENTIALS; SOFT SPHERES; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION SCHEMES; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; THREE SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 62549157773     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3086606     Document Type: Article

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