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Parallel J-W Monte Carlo Simulations of Thermal Phase Changes in Finite-size Systems

Computational Physics 2009-11-07 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters Atomic Physics Biological Physics

Abstract

The thermodynamic properties of 59 TeF6 clusters that undergo temperature-driven phase transitions have been calculated with a canonical J-walking Monte Carlo technique. A parallel code for simulations has been developed and optimized on SUN3500 and CRAY-T3E computers. The Lindemann criterion shows that the clusters transform from liquid to solid and then from one solid structure to another in the temperature region 60-130 K.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0203054,
  title  = {Parallel J-W Monte Carlo Simulations of Thermal Phase Changes in Finite-size Systems},
  author = {R. Radev and A. Proykova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0203054},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures; presented at the conference on computational physics, Aachen (2001) accepted for publication in Comp.Phys.Comm