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Monte‐Carlo Method for Simulations of Ring Polymers in the Melt
Author(s) -
Vettorel Thomas,
Reigh Shang Yik,
Yoon Do Y.,
Kremer Kurt
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200800627
Subject(s) - monte carlo method , polymer , statistical physics , materials science , ring (chemistry) , polymer science , physics , composite material , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , statistics
A detailed analysis of the efficiency of a Monte‐Carlo (MC) method employing non‐local moves for simple lattice ring polymers is presented. While the introduction of kink‐translocation moves for linear chains results in the expected speedup by a factor of the order of the number of sites, this is significantly reduced for a melt of rings.