Temperature-extended Jarzynski relation: Application to the numerical calculation of the surface tension
Statistical Mechanics
2011-02-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We consider a generalization of the Jarzynski relation to the case where the system interacts with a bath for which the temperature is not kept constant but can vary during the transformation. We suggest to use this relation as a replacement to the thermodynamic perturbation method or the Bennett method for the estimation of the order-order surface tension by Monte Carlo simulations. To demonstrate the feasibility of the method, we present some numerical data for the 3D Ising model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0702044,
title = {Temperature-extended Jarzynski relation: Application to the numerical calculation of the surface tension},
author = {Christophe Chatelain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0702044},
year = {2011}
}