Phase changes in 38-atom Lennard-Jones clusters. II. A parallel tempering study of equilibrium and dynamic properties in the molecular dynamics and microcanonical …

F Calvo, JP Neirotti, DL Freeman… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2000‏ - pubs.aip.org
We study the 38-atom Lennard-Jones cluster with parallel tempering Monte Carlo methods
in the microcanonical and molecular dynamics ensembles. A new Monte Carlo algorithm is …

Calculating free energies using a scaled-force molecular dynamics algorithm

E Darve, MA Wilson, A Pohorille - Molecular Simulation, 2002‏ - Taylor & Francis
We propose and test a family of methods to calculate the free energy along a generalized
coordinate,, based on computing the force acting on this coordinate. First, we derive a …

A review of GEMC method and its improved algorithms

L Zhang, Y Yang, K Yin, Y Liu - Acta Geochimica, 2023‏ - Springer
Abstract Gibbs Ensemble Monte Carlo (GEMC) is a molecular simulation method commonly
used for simulating phase equilibrium. This method has been proposed since 1987 and …

Magic number behavior for heat capacities of medium-sized classical Lennard-Jones clusters

DD Frantz - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2001‏ - pubs.aip.org
Monte Carlo methods were used to calculate heat capacities as functions of temperature for
classical atomic clusters of aggregate sizes 25⩽ N⩽ 60 that were bound by pairwise …

Computational techniques and strategies for Monte Carlo thermodynamic calculations, with applications to nanoclusters

RQ Topper, DL Freeman, D Bergin… - Reviews in …, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Chapter 1 is a tutorial covering Monte Carlo techniques used by chemists. Introduced first
are tutorials on random number generation, the Metropolis Monte Carlo method, estimation …

Stochastic potential switching algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations of complex systems

CH Mak - The Journal of chemical physics, 2005‏ - pubs.aip.org
This paper describes a new Monte Carlo method based on a novel stochastic potential
switching algorithm. This algorithm enables the equilibrium properties of a system with …

Parallel Random Tunneling Algorithm for Structural Optimization of Lennard-Jones Clusters up to N = 330

X Shao, H Jiang, W Cai - Journal of chemical information and …, 2004‏ - ACS Publications
A random tunneling algorithm (RTA) is derived from the terminal repeller unconstrained
subenergy tunneling (TRUST) algorithm, and the parallelization of the RTA is implemented …

A unified methodological framework for the simulation of nonisothermal ensembles

FA Escobedo - The Journal of chemical physics, 2005‏ - pubs.aip.org
A general framework is developed for the simulation of nonisothermal statistical-mechanical
ensembles. This framework is intended to synthesize the formulation of advanced Monte …

On the use of a weak-coupling thermostat in replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations

Z Lin, WF van Gunsteren - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2015‏ - pubs.aip.org
In a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, various thermostat algorithms, including Langevin
dynamics (LD), Nosé-Hoover (NH), and weak-coupling (WC) thermostats, can be used to …

A rare event sampling method for diffusion Monte Carlo using smart darting

K Roberts, R Sebsebie, E Curotto - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012‏ - pubs.aip.org
We identify a set of multidimensional potential energy surfaces sufficiently complex to cause
both the classical parallel tempering and the guided or unguided diffusion Monte Carlo …