Newtonian Event-Chain Monte Carlo and Collision Prediction with Polyhedral Particles
Klement M, Lee S, Anderson JA, Engel M (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
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Polyhedral nanocrystals are building blocks for nanostructured materials that find applications in catalysis and plasmonics. Synthesis efforts and self-assembly experiments have been assisted by computer simulations that predict phase equilibria. Most current simulations employ Monte Carlo methods, which generate stochastic dynamics. Collective and correlated configuration updates are alternatives that promise higher computational efficiency and generate trajectories with realistic dynamics. One such alternative involves event-chain updates and has recently been proposed for spherical particles. In this contribution, we develop and apply event-chain Monte Carlo for hard convex polyhedra. Our simulation makes use of an improved computational geometry algorithm XenoSweep, which predicts sweep collision in a particularly simple way. We implement Newtonian event chains in the open-source general-purpose particle simulation toolkit HOOMD-blue for serial and parallel simulation. The speedup over state-of-the-art Monte Carlo is between a factor of 10 for nearly spherical polyhedra and a factor of 2 for highly aspherical polyhedra. Finally, we validate the Newtonian event-chain algorithm by applying it to a current research problem, the multistep nucleation of two classes of hard polyhedra.
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Marco Klement
Professur für Modellierung von Selbstorganisationsprozessen
Michael Engel
Professur für Modellierung von Selbstorganisationsprozessen
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APA:
Klement, M., Lee, S., Anderson, J.A., & Engel, M. (2021). Newtonian Event-Chain Monte Carlo and Collision Prediction with Polyhedral Particles. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00311
MLA:
Klement, Marco, et al. "Newtonian Event-Chain Monte Carlo and Collision Prediction with Polyhedral Particles." Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2021).
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