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We present an algorithm for the simulation of the exact real-time dynamics of classical many-body systems with discrete energy levels. In the same spirit of kinetic Monte Carlo methods, a stochastic solution of the master equation is found,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alejandro Mendoza-Coto , Rogelio Díaz-Méndez , Guido Pupillo

We present a cluster kinetic Monte-Carlo algorithm for active matter systems of self-propelled particles with special focus on steric interactions. The kinetic event-chain algorithm is based on the event-chain Monte-Carlo method and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Nico Schaffrath , Thevashangar Sathiyanesan , Tobias A. Kampmann , Jan Kierfeld

We introduce an efficient, scalable Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate cross-linked architectures of freely-jointed and discrete worm-like chains. Bond movement is based on the discrete tractrix construction, which effects conformational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-27 Henry E. Amuasi , Cornelis Storm

It was recently demonstrated that a simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm involving the swap of particle pairs dramatically accelerates the equilibrium sampling of simulated supercooled liquids. We propose two numerical schemes integrating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Christopher J. Fullerton , Camille Scalliet , Murari Singh

Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool for studying the equilibrium properties of matter. In complex condensed-phase systems, however, it is difficult to design Monte Carlo moves with high acceptance probabilities that also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-27 Jerome P. Nilmeier , Gavin E. Crooks , David D. L. Minh , John D. Chodera

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu-Pin Luo , Ming-Chang Huang , Yen-Liang Chou , Tsong-Ming Liaw

We generalize the rejection-free event-chain Monte Carlo algorithm from many particle systems with pairwise interactions to systems with arbitrary three- or many-particle interactions. We introduce generalized lifting probabilities between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-01 Julian Harland , Manon Michel , Tobias A. Kampmann , Jan Kierfeld

Irreversible and rejection-free Monte Carlo methods, recently developed in Physics under the name Event-Chain and known in Statistics as Piecewise Deterministic Monte Carlo (PDMC), have proven to produce clear acceleration over standard…

Computation · Statistics 2020-04-28 Manon Michel , Alain Durmus , Stéphane Sénécal

We present a new Monte Carlo scheme for the efficient simulation of multi-polymer systems. The method permits chains to be inserted into the system using a biased growth technique. The growth proceeds via the use of a retractable feeler,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Consta , N. B. Wilding , D. Frenkel , Z. Alexandrowicz

We extend the event-chain Monte Carlo algorithm from hard-sphere interactions to the micro-canonical ensemble (constant potential energy) for general potentials. This event-driven Monte Carlo algorithm is non-local, rejection-free, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Etienne P. Bernard , Werner Krauth

We introduce a multiscale Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate dense simple fluids. The probability of an update follows a power law distribution in its length scale. The collective motion of clusters of particles requires generalization of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. C. Maggs

We present a Monte Carlo algorithm that provides efficient and unbiased sampling of polymer melts consisting of two chains of equal length that jointly visit all the sites of a cubic lattice with rod geometry L x L x rL and non-periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-03 Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

Elastic systems that are spatially heterogeneous in their mechanical response pose special challenges for molecular simulations. Standard methods for sampling thermal fluctuations of a system's size and shape proceed through a series of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Sander Pronk , Phillip L. Geissler

We present a lattice Monte Carlo algorithm based on the one originally proposed by Maggs and Rossetto for simulating electrostatic interactions in inhomogeneous dielectric media. The original algorithm is known to produce attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-12 Xiaozheng Duan , Issei Nakamura , Zhen-Gang Wang

We describe collective-move Monte Carlo algorithms designed to approximate the overdamped dynamics of self-assembling nanoscale components equipped with strong, short-ranged and anisotropic interactions. Conventional Monte Carlo simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-16 Stephen Whitelam

We use an off - lattice bead - spring model of a self - avoiding polymer chain immersed in a 3-dimensional quenched random medium to study chain dynamics by means of a Monte - Carlo (MC) simulation. The chain center of mass mean-squared…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Milchev , V. G. Rostiashvili , T. A. Vilgis

We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attractions of short range and arbitrary strength and geometry, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen Whitelam , Phillip L. Geissler

Monte Carlo simulations are methods for simulating statistical systems. The aim is to generate a representative ensemble of configurations to access thermodynamical quantities without the need to solve the system analytically or to perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jean-Charles Walter , Gerard Barkema

Several methods for preparing well equilibrated melts of long chains polymers are studied. We show that the standard method in which one starts with an ensemble of chains with the correct end-to-end distance arranged randomly in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolf Auhl , Ralf Everaers , Gary S. Grest , Kurt Kremer , Steven J. Plimpton

In dynamic Monte Carlo simulations, using for example the Metropolis dynamic, it is often required to simulate for long times and to simulate large systems. We present an overview of advanced algorithms to simulate for larger times and to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Novotny , Alice K. Kolakowska , G. Korniss