Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

J Hénin, T Lelièvre, MR Shirts, O Valsson… - ar** of nuclear isomeric states by the Coulomb collision of ions with quivering electrons
J Feng, W Wang, C Fu, L Chen, J Tan, Y Li, J Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Efficient production of nuclear isomers is critical for pioneering applications, like nuclear
clocks, nuclear batteries, clean nuclear energy, and nuclear γ-ray lasers. However, due to …

Wetting and Contact-Angle Hysteresis: Density Asymmetry and van der Waals Force

F Wang, B Nestler - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A droplet depositing on a solid substrate leads to the wetting phenomenon, such as dew on
plant leaves. On an ideally smooth substrate, the classic Young's law has been employed to …

Nuclear excitation by electron capture in excited ions

S Gargiulo, I Madan, F Carbone - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A nuclear excitation following the capture of an electron in an empty orbital has been
recently observed for the first time. So far, the evaluation of the cross section of the process …

Dynamical control of nuclear isomer depletion via electron vortex beams

Y Wu, S Gargiulo, F Carbone, CH Keitel, A Pálffy - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Some nuclear isomers are known to store a large amount of energy over long periods of
time, with a very high energy-to-mass ratio. Here, we describe a protocol to achieve the …

Spin-polarized proton beam generation from gas-jet targets by intense laser pulses

L **, M Wen, X Zhang, A Hützen, J Thomas… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
A method of generating spin-polarized proton beams from a gas jet by using a multipetawatt
laser is put forward. With currently available techniques of producing prepolarized …

Canonical Monte Carlo multispin cluster method

K Makarova, A Makarov, V Strongin, I Titovets… - … of Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a new Canonical Multispin-flip Cluster Monte Carlo algorithm for Ising model
and describe efficient implementations for hybrid supercomputer. Our method takes …