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Titration of methacrylic acid / ethyl-acrylate copolymers is studied experimentally and theoretically. At low salt concentrations, this polyacid exhibits a plateau in the titration curve below the neutralization point. The plateau has been…

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We investigate to what extend the replica-exchange Monte Carlo method is able to equilibrate a simple liquid in its supercooled state. We find that this method does indeed allow to generate accurately the canonical distribution function…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Walter Kob

Competing phases or interactions in complex many-particle systems can result in free energy barriers that strongly suppress thermal equilibration. Here we discuss how extended ensemble Monte Carlo simulations can be used to study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Trebst , D. A. Huse , E. Gull , H. G. Katzgraber , U. H. E. Hansmann , M. Troyer

Exposing a molecule to intense light pulses may bring this molecule to a nonstationary quantum state, thus launching correlated dynamics of electronic and nuclear subsystems. Although much had been achieved in the understanding of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Nikolay V. Golubev , Jiří Vaníček

The conformation of polyelectrolytes in the solution state has long been of interest in polymer science. Herein we utilize all atom molecular dynamics simulations (MD) and small-angle x-ray scattering experiments (SAXS) to elucidate the…

We perform extensive molecular dynamics simulations of a highly charged flexible polyelectrolyte (PE) chain in a poor solvent for the case when the chain is in a collapsed state and the electrostatic interactions, characterized by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-22 Anvy Moly Tom , Satyavani Vemparala , R Rajesh , Nikolai Brilliantov

Constant potential methods (CPM) enable computationally efficient simulations of the solid-liquid interface at conducting electrodes in molecular dynamics (MD). They have been successfully used, for example, to realistically model the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Ludwig J. V. Ahrens-Iwers , Mathijs Janssen , Shern R. Tee , Robert H. Meißner

We discuss problems associated with the notion of pH in heterogeneous systems. For homogeneous systems, standardization protocols lead to a well defined quantity, which although different from S\o rensen's original idea of pH, is well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-17 Amin Bakhshandeh , Yan Levin

Restricted path integral Monte Carlo simulations are used to calculate the equilibrium properties of hydrogen in the density and temperature range of $9.83 \times 10^{-4}\rm \leq \rho \leq 0.153 \rm gcm^{-3}$ and $5000 \leq T \leq 250 000…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Militzer , D. M. Ceperley

Heterogeneous multiscale methods (HMM) combine molecular accuracy of particle-based simulations with the computational efficiency of continuum descriptions to model flow in soft matter liquids. In these schemes, molecular simulations…

Path integral Monte Carlo approach is used to study the coupled quantum dynamics of the electron and nuclei in hydrogen molecule ion. The coupling effects are demonstrated by comparing differences in adiabatic Born--Oppenheimer and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-12-29 I. Kylänpää , M. Leino , T. T. Rantala

The static density response of the uniform electron gas is of fundamental importance for numerous applications. Here, we employ the recently developed \textit{ab initio} permutation blocking path integral Monte Carlo (PB-PIMC) technique…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Jan Vorberger , Michael Bonitz

In this article, we report a fully ab initio variational Monte Carlo study of the linear, and periodic chain of Hydrogen atoms, a prototype system providing the simplest example of strong electronic correlation in low dimensions. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 Lorenzo Stella , Claudio Attaccalite , Sandro Sorella , Angel Rubio

In this work, we consider the problem of estimating summary statistics to characterise biochemical reaction networks of interest. Such networks are often described using the framework of the Chemical Master Equation (CME). For…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-27 Christopher Lester , Christian A. Yates , Ruth E. Baker

Using molecular dynamics simulations we study the behavior of a dilute solution of strongly charged polyelectrolytes in poor solvents, where we take counterions explicitly into account. We focus on the chain conformational properties under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -J. Limbach , C. Holm

We have studied a bulk electrolyte, and polyelectrolyte solutions with surfactants or multivalent salt with the explicit presence of counterions and solvent molecules by means of the mesoscopic dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-20 F. Alarcon Oseguera , E. Perez , A. Gama Goicochea

In this work, we review and analyze both the theoretical and numerical aspects of strongly and weakly coupled thermoelastic systems. By employing spectral analysis techniques and establishing uniform resolvent estimates, we derive uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 I. Essadeq , S. Nafiri , S. Benjelloun , A. E. Fettouh

Due to the importance of using supercapacitors in electronic storage devices, improving their efficiency is one of the topics that has attracted the attention of many researchers. Choosing the proper electrolyte for supercapacitors is one…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Nasrin Eyvazi , Davood Abbaszadeh , Morad Biagooi , SeyedEhsan Nedaaee Oskoee

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods have proven to be effective extensions of traditional Monte Carlo methods in, amongst others, problems of quadrature and the sample path simulation of stochastic differential equations. By replacing the random…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-12 Casper H. L. Beentjes , Ruth E. Baker

The dielectric response and structural properties of finite-temperature electron liquids are central to accurately describing the physical behavior of electronic systems. This study presents a robust analytical model for the static…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chengliang Lin , Yong Hou , Jianmin Yuan , Yong Wu , Jianguo Wang