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A Complexity O(1) Priority Queue for Event Driven Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Computational Physics 2015-06-26 v1 Other Condensed Matter General Physics

Abstract

We propose and implement a priority queue suitable for use in event driven molecular dynamics simulations. All operations on the queue take on average O(1) time per collision. In comparison, previously studied queues for event driven molecular dynamics simulations require O(log NN) time per collision for systems of NN particles.

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0606226,
  title  = {A Complexity O(1) Priority Queue for Event Driven Molecular Dynamics Simulations},
  author = {Gerald Paul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0606226},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Journal of Computational Physics