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We study the dynamical behavior of disordered many-particle systems with long-range Coulomb interactions by means of damage-spreading simulations. In this type of Monte-Carlo simulations one investigates the time evolution of the damage,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Torsten Wappler , Michael Schreiber , Thomas Vojta

Monte Carlo simulations are based on the manipulation of random numbers to evaluate probable outcomes, with applicability in a variety of different fields. By assigning probabilities, which can be determined a priori, to various events, it…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-01-03 Parasuraman Swaminathan

Results for the kinetics of vapor-liquid phase transition have been presented from the molecular dynamics simulations of a single component two-dimensional Lennard-Jones fluid. The phase diagram for the model, primary prerequisite for this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Jiarul Midya , Subir K. Das

A model for two-dimensional colloids confined laterally by "structured boundaries" (i.e., ones that impose a periodicity along the slit) is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. When the distance D between the confining walls is reduced at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-09 Dorothea Wilms , Nigel B. Wilding , Kurt Binder

We introduce a simple method for characterizing reactive pathways in quantum systems. Flux auto- correlation and cross-correlation functions are employed to develop a quantitative measure of dynamical coupling in quantum transition events,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-17 Nandini Ananth , Thomas F. Miller

Simulation of time dynamical physical problems has been a challenge for classical computers due to their time-complexity. To demonstrate the dominance of quantum computers over classical computers in this regime, here we simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Prabhat , Bikash K. Behera

The efficiency of path sampling simulations can be improved considerably using the approach of path swapping. For this purpose, we have devised a new algorithmic procedure based on the transition interface sampling technique. In the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Titus S. van Erp

The discrete time path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) with a one-particle density matrix approximation is applied to study the quantum phase transition in the coupled double-well chain. To improve the convergence properties, the exact action…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dong-Hee Kim , Yu-Cheng Lin , Heiko Rieger

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study particle-transport in a system of interacting colloidal particles on a ring, where the system is driven by a time-dependent external potential, moving along the ring. We consider two driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-06 Shubhashis Rana , Sanchari Goswami , Sakuntala Chatterjee , Punyabrata Pradhan

Simulations with an adaptive time-dependent bias, such as metadynamics, enable an efficient exploration of the conformational space of a system. However, the dynamic information of the system is altered by the bias. With infrequent…

Molecular dynamics simulations are an important tool for describing the evolution of a chemical system with time. However, these simulations are inherently held back either by the prohibitive cost of accurate electronic structure theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Michael Gastegger , Philipp Marquetand

Depositions of amorphous Lennard-Jones clusters on a crystalline surface are numerically investigated. From the results of the molecular dynamics simulation, we found that the deposited clusters exhibit a transition from multilayered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Hisao Hayakawa

Direct sampling of multi-dimensional systems with quantum Monte Carlo methods allows exact account of many-body effects or particle correlations. The most straightforward approach to solve the Schr\"odinger equation, Diffusion Monte Carlo,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Tapio T. Rantala

In this paper, we proposed a stochastic model which describes two species of particles moving in counterflow. The model generalizes the theoretical framework describing the transport in random systems since particles can work as mobile…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-09 Eduardo Velasco Stock , Roberto da Silva , Henrique Almeida Fernandes

Efficient simulations of quantum evolutions of spin-1/2 systems are relevant for ensemble quantum computation as well as in typical NMR experiments. We propose an efficient method to calculate the dynamics of an observable provided that the…

Theoretical studies on chemical reaction mechanisms have been crucial in organic chemistry. Traditionally, calculating the manually constructed molecular conformations of transition states for chemical reactions using quantum chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Sihao Yuan , Xu Han , Jun Zhang , Zhaoxin Xie , Cheng Fan , Yunlong Xiao , Yi Qin Gao , Yi Isaac Yang

Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on pure liquid water, aqueous solutions of sodium chloride, and polymer solutions exposed to a strong external electric field with the goal to gain molecular insight into the structural…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-08 I. Nezbeda , J. Jirsák , F. Moučka , W. R. Smith

Monte-Carlo simulation of physical processes is an important tool for detector development as it allows to predict signal pulse amplitude and timing, time resolution, efficiency ... Yet despite the fact they are very common, full…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-27 Vincent Français

We briefly review simulation schemes for the investigation of rare transitions and we resume the recently introduced Transition Interface Sampling, a method in which the computation of rate constants is recast into the computation of fluxes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniele Moroni , Titus S. van Erp , Peter G. Bolhuis

Stochastic modeling of reaction networks is a framework used to describe the time evolution of many natural and artificial systems, including, biochemical reactive systems at the molecular level, viral kinetics, the spread of epidemic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Alvaro Moraes , Raul Tempone , Pedro Vilanova