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Monte Carlo simulations are widely employed to measure the physical properties of glass-forming liquids in thermal equilibrium. Combined with local Monte Carlo moves, the Metropolis algorithm can also be used to simulate the relaxation…

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Block copolymer melts self-assemble in the bulk into a variety of nanostructures, making them perfect candidates to template the position of nanoparticles. The morphological changes of block copolymers are studied in the presence of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-31 Javier Diaz , Marco Pinna , Andrei V. Zvelindovsky , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We show that Monte Carlo sampling of the Feynman diagrammatic series (DiagMC) can be used for tackling hard fermionic quantum many-body problems in the thermodynamic limit by presenting accurate results for the repulsive Hubbard model in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Kozik , K. Van Houcke , E. Gull , L. Pollet , N. Prokof'ev , B. Svistunov , M. Troyer

A range of percolation models of cluster systems of composites is discussed. In the models the parameters of the clusters of a substance and inner boundaries were obtained by the Monte Carlo method, and the possibility of affecting the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexander Herega

Single-chain Monte Carlo simulations of amphiphilic diblock star copolymers were carried out in continuous space using implicit solvents. Two distinct architectures were studied: stars with the hydrophobic blocks attached to the core, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ronan Connolly , Edward G. Timoshenko , Yuri A. Kuznetsov

Using exact enumeration methods and Monte Carlo simulations we study the phase diagram relative to the conformational transitions of a two dimensional diblock copolymer. The polymer is made of two homogeneous strands of monomers of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco Baiesi , Enrico Carlon , Enzo Orlandini , Attilio L. Stella

We extend the Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) model to a two-component BEG model in order to study 2D systems with two order parameters, such as magnetic superconductors or two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. The model is investigated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. C. Loois , G. T. Barkema , C. Morais Smith

We describe a Monte Carlo procedure which allows sampling of the disjoint configuration spaces associated with crystalline and fluid phases, within a single simulation. The method utilises biased sampling techniques to enhance the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. B. Wilding , A. D. Bruce

The Diffusion Monte Carlo method is devoted to the computation of electronic ground-state energies of molecules. In this paper, we focus on implementations of this method which consist in exploring the configuration space with a {\bf fixed}…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tony Lelievre , Mohamed El Makrini , Benjamin Jourdain

We present a quantitative comparison between extensive Monte Carlo simulations and self-consistent field calculations on the phase diagram and wetting behavior of a symmetric, binary (AB) polymer blend confined into a film. The flat walls…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Mueller , K. Binder

We perform simulations for long hard-sphere polymer chains using a recently developed binary-tree based Monte Carlo method. Systems in two to five dimensions with free and periodic boundary conditions and up to $10^7$ repeat units are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-01 Stefan Schnabel , Wolfhard Janke

In this paper we introduce and discuss numerical schemes for the approximation of kinetic equations for flocking behavior with phase transitions that incorporate uncertain quantities. This class of schemes here considered make use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Mattia Zanella

The Monte Carlo carbyne model is modified to investigate the glass transition of the semi-flexible entangled polymer chains. The stochastic bombardment between monomers are monitored by Metropolis algorithm with help of the consideration of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. H. Wong , L. Xue , E. A. Buntov , A. F. Zatsepin

A machine learning approach is presented to accelerate the computation of block polymer morphology evolution for large domains over long timescales. The strategy exploits the separation of characteristic times between coarse-grained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Hyun Park , Boyuan Yu , Juhae Park , Ge Sun , Emad Tajkhorshid , Juan J. de Pablo , Ludwig Schneider

We propose a Multi-Cell Monte Carlo algorithm, or (MC)^2, for predicting stable phases in chemically complex crystalline systems. Free atomic transfer among cells is achieved via the application of the lever rule, where an assigned molar…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-13 Changning Niu , You Rao , Wolfgang Windl , Maryam Ghazisaeidi

We describe and analyze some Monte Carlo methods for manifolds in Euclidean space defined by equality and inequality constraints. First, we give an MCMC sampler for probability distributions defined by un-normalized densities on such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Emilio Zappa , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon , Jonathan Goodman

We derive the mean-field theory of disordered block-copolymers composed of two monomeric species, combining Edwards' functional method with the replica technique of disordered systems. In the absence of disorder we recover the canonical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-01-17 Gabriele Migliorini

A MATLAB program has been developed for simulation of polymer blend self-assembly with nano-scaled features. The Cahn-Hilliard equation is implemented to calculate the free energy profile of the polymer blends. The Flory-Huggins type of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-09 Yingrui Shang , David Kazmer

A new approach to simulation of stationary flows by Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method is proposed. The idea is to specify an individual time step for each component of a gas mixture. The approach consists of modifications mainly to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Roman V. Maltsev

We consider the computational efficiency of Monte Carlo (MC) and Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods applied to partial differential equations with random coefficients. These arise, for example, in groundwater flow modelling, where a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Anastasia Istratuca , Aretha Teckentrup