New approach to Monte Carlo calculation of the free energy: Method of expanded ensembles

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 1776-1783

  Lyubartsev, A P ^a   Martsinovski, A A ^a   Shevkunov, S V ^a   Vorontsov Velyaminov, P N ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; ELECTROLYTES; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; FREE ENERGY; MODIFICATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS; RANDOM WALK; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; USES

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; FREE ENERGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRALS; MODIFICATIONS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS; RANDOM WALK; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; USES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84953648015     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: 10897690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.462133     Document Type: Article

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