Efficient equilibration of hard spheres with Newtonian event chains

Klement M, Engel M (2019)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Book Volume: 150

Article Number: 174108

Journal Issue: 17

DOI: 10.1063/1.5090882

Abstract

An important task in the simulation of hard spheres and other hard particles is structure prediction via equilibration. Event-driven molecular dynamics is efficient because its Newtonian dynamics equilibrates fluctuations with the speed of sound. Monte Carlo simulation is efficient if performed with correlated position updates in event chains. Here, we combine the core concepts of molecular dynamics and event chains into a new algorithm involving Newtonian event chains. Measurements of the diffusion coefficient, nucleation rate, and melting speed demonstrate that Newtonian event chains outperform other algorithms. Newtonian event chains scale well to large systems and can be extended to anisotropic hard particles without approximations.

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APA:

Klement, M., & Engel, M. (2019). Efficient equilibration of hard spheres with Newtonian event chains. Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(17). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090882

MLA:

Klement, Marco, and Michael Engel. "Efficient equilibration of hard spheres with Newtonian event chains." Journal of Chemical Physics 150.17 (2019).

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