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We simulate structural phase behavior of polymer-grafted colloidal particles by molecular Monte Carlo technique. Interparticle potential, which has a finite repulsive square-step outside a rigid core of the colloid, was previously confirmed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 Yuki Norizoe , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

Aims. We present an implementation of an algorithm for 3D time-dependent Monte Carlo radiative transfer. It allows one to simulate temperature distributions as well as images and spectral energy distributions of the scattered light and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 A. Bensberg , S. Wolf

Using continuous time Monte-Carlo method we simulated the translocation of a polynucleotide chain driven through a nanopore by an electric field. We have used two models of driven diffusion due to the electric field. The chain may have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pui-Man Lam , Fei Liu , Zhong-can OuYang

I did off-lattice 3D Monte Carlo simulations for polymer translocation through a narrow pore at low external field, trying to be as close to a direct approach as possible. The process was found non equilibrium globally, but dynamics of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-18 Stanislav Kotsev

The repton model is a simple model of the "reptation" motion by which DNA diffuses through a gel during electrophoresis. In this paper we show that the model can be mapped onto a system consisting of two types of particles with hard-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. E. J. Newman , G. T. Barkema

The Diffusion Monte Carlo method with constant number of walkers, also called Stochastic Reconfiguration as well as Sequential Monte Carlo, is a widely used Monte Carlo methodology for computing the ground-state energy and wave function of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Michel Caffarel , Pierre del Moral , Luc de Montella

Tracer-diffusion of small molecules through dense systems of chain polymers is studied within an athermal lattice model, where hard core interactions are taken into account by means of the site exclusion principle. An approximate mapping of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Durr , T. Volz , W. Dieterich , A. Nitzan

As an extension of the former study on 2-dimensional systems, we simulate phase behavior of polymer-grafted colloidal particles in 3 dimensions by molecular Monte Carlo technique in the canonical ensemble. We use a spherically symmetric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-02 Yuki Norizoe , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

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 modify the reweighting factor of the projector used in diffusion Monte Carlo to reduce the time-step error of the total energy. Further, we present a reweighting scheme that has the desirable feature that it is exactly size-consistent,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Tyler A. Anderson , Manolo C. Per , C. J. Umrigar

Recent work incorporating geometric ideas in Markov chain Monte Carlo is reviewed in order to highlight these advances and their possible application in a range of domains beyond Statistics. A full exposition of Markov chains and their use…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-19 Samuel Livingstone , Mark Girolami

Long DNA molecules can be mapped by cutting them with restriction enzymes inside a narrow channel. Once cut, the individual fragments thus produced move away from each other due to diffusion and entropic effects. We investigate how long it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-11 Hanyang. Wang , Gary W Slater

Monte Carlo simulation is one of the most important tools in the study of diffusion processes. For constant diffusion coefficients, an appropriate Gaussian distribution of particle's steplengths can generate exact results, when compared…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Ruiz Barlett , M. Hoyuelos , H. O. Mártin

In this paper we present two efficient implementations of the diffusion approximation to be employed in Monte Carlo computations of radiative transfer in dusty media of massive circumstellar disks. The aim is to improve the accuracy of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Min , C. P. Dullemond , C. Dominik , A. de Koter , J. W. Hovenier

Back-diffusion is the phenomenon by which random walkers revisit binding sites on a lattice. This phenomenon must occur on interstellar dust particles, slowing down dust-grain reactions, but it is not accounted for by standard rate-equation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Eric R. Willis , Robin T. Garrod

We report diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations of three-dimensional Wigner crystals in the density range r_s=100-150. We have tested different types of orbital for use in the approximate wave functions but none improve upon the simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-03 N. D. Drummond , Z. Radnai , J. R. Trail , M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs

We present computer simulations of a dynamic Monte Carlo algorithm for polymer chains on the FCC lattice which takes explicitly into account the possibility to overcome topological constraints by controlling the rate at which nearby polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-01 Mattia Alberto Ubertini , Angelo Rosa

We have developed a technique to accelerate the acquisition of effectively uncorrelated configurations for off-lattice models of dense polymer melts which makes use of both parallel tempering and large scale Monte Carlo moves. The method is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Bunker , Burkhard Duenweg

We present a new efficient method for Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion-reaction processes. First introduced by us in [Phys. Rev. Lett., 97:230602, 2006], the new algorithm skips the traditional small diffusion hops and propagates the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Oppelstrup , V. V. Bulatov , A. Donev , M. H. Kalos , G. H. Gilmer , B. Sadigh

Monte Carlo simulations using an explicit solvent model indicate a new pathway for translocation of a polymer chain through a lipid bilayer. We consider a polymer chain composed of repeat units with a given hydrophobicity and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-22 Jens-Uwe Sommer , Marco Werner , Vladimir A. Baulin