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We present atomic-scale computer simulations in equiatomic L1$_0$-CoPt where Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo techniques have both been applied to study the vacancy-atom exchange and kinetics relaxation. The atomic potential is determined…
The lattice gas model for adsorption of alkaline elements on W(112) surface is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. The model includes dipole--dipole interaction as well as long-range indirect interaction. The numerical results show that…
Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study the properties of type-II superconducting films in a magnetic field in which the vortices move in the two-dimensional geometry represented by the surface of a sphere. No numerical evidence is…
Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the magnetic relaxation of a system of single domain particles with dipolar interactions modeled by a chain of Heisenberg classical spins. We show that the so-called $T\ln(t/\tau_0)$ method can be…
A $\theta$ term, which couples to topological charge, is added to the two-dimensional lattice CP^3 model and U(1) gauge theory. Monte Carlo simulations are performed and compared to strong-coupling character expansions. In certain…
We computed by a Monte Carlo method the thermal relaxation of a polycrystalline thin film deposited on a Penrose lattice. The thin film was modelled by a 2 dimensional array of elementary domains, which have each a given height. During the…
Solvent-free coarse grained models represent one of the most promising approaches for molecular simulations of mesoscopically large membranes. In these models, the size of the simulated membrane is limited by the slow relaxation time of…
We consider the Ising model on a small-world network, where the long-range interaction strength $J_2$ is in general different from the local interaction strength $J_1$, and examine its relaxation behaviors as well as phase transitions. As…
The electromigration (EM) of metallic lines is studied in terms of competition between two percolative processes taking place in a random resistor network. The effects associated with the transport of mass and with the consequent growth of…
The investigation of freezing transitions of single polymers is computationally demanding, since surface effects dominate the nucleation process. In recent studies we have systematically shown that the freezing properties of flexible,…
The order-disorder layering transitions, of the Blume-Capel model, are studied using the Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, in the presence of a variable crystal field. For a very low temperature, the results are in good agreement with the…
The relaxation of the distribution function of the electrons drifting under the influence of a homogeneous electric field in noble gases is known to take place over an extended spatial domain at `intermediate' values of the reduced electric…
The density relaxation phenomenon is modeled using both Monte Carlo and dissipative MD simulations to investigate the effects of regular taps applied to a vessel having a planar floor filled with monodisperse spheres. Results suggest the…
This paper considers the Monte Carlo dynamics of random dimer coverings of the square lattice, which can be mapped to a rough interface model. Two kinds of slow modes are identified, associated respectively with long-wavelength fluctuations…
We describe a Monte Carlo simulation study of the magnetic phase diagram of diluted magnetic semiconductors doped with shallow impurities in the low concentration regime. We show that because of a wide distribution of interaction strengths,…
The effect of different move sets on the folding kinetics of the Monte Carlo simulations is analysed based on the conformation-network and the temperature-dependent folding kinetics. A new scheme of implementing Metropolis algorithm is…
We study the finite size scaling behaviour of the specific heat of thin films in the neighbourhood of the lambda-transition. To this end we have simulated the improved two-component phi^4 model on the simple cubic lattice. We employ free…
Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, together with scaling, are used to obtain the critical behavior of the Hastings long-range model and two corresponding models based on small-world networks. These models have combined short- and…
This paper reviews recent Monte Carlo simulation studies of the glassy behavior in thin polymer films. The simulations employ a version of the bond-fluctuation lattice model, in which the glass transition is driven by the competition…
The three-dimensional XY model with bilinear-biquadratic exchange interactions $J$ and $J'$, respectively, has been studied by Monte Carlo simulations. From the detailed analysis of the thermal variation of various physical quantities, as…