Questions tagged [monte-carlo]
For questions related to Monte Carlo methods, which solve deterministic numerical problems via a probabilistic sampling approach.
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Absorption enthaply at different temprature in VASP software via ab initio molecular dynamics
Can we calculate the absorption enthalpy at different temperature in VASP software via ab initio molecular dynamics? If yes, how?
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Plot MSD (mean square displacement) versus time for a polymer chain
Cross-posted on Computational Science SE.
The following are the movements of the center of mass of a polymer chain over time in a monte carlo simulation.
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How to Balance Translational and Angular Maximum displacements in a Monte Carlo Simulation of Non-Spherically Symmetric Molecules?
I'm writing a computer simulation code to model a system of non-spherically symmetric molecules, meaning that their state are described by both angular and translational components.
In typical Monte ...
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Resource recommendation for learning matter modeling for a novice [closed]
I am a starting researcher in condensed matter physics. Hence, i have all the necessary background regarding quantum physics, and condensed matter physics. But what i want to do is to learn different ...
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Thermodynamics: System versus Ensemble
In the context of thermodynamics, an ensemble is a hypothetical collection of identical copies of a system, each in a different state, used to represent the statistical behavior of the system.
That ...
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When should I use Charge-Charge Interactions, Charge-Dipole Interactions, and Dipole-Dipole Interactions in molecular simulation?
I used LJ-potential, Hard-sphere, Soft-sphere, Harmonic, Square-well, etc. potentials in the case of simulation of polymer movement. However, I never used
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Is the term "Forcefield" only reserved for MD (Molecular Dynamics)?
As far as I understand, there are two related concepts called potential and forcefield. A forcefield is essentially a sum term of more than one potential.
My question is, is the term "Forcefield&...
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Are lattice-based Monte Carlo simulations used in the case of liquids and gases?
The Ising model uses a lattice-based model as it is reasonable to simulate magnetic behavior in a solid.
Is lattice-based Monte Carlo modeling used in the case of the simulation of gases and liquids (...
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What factors determine the selection of a specific type of MC move?
There are several types of Monte Carlo (MC) moves that can be used in simulations:
Metropolis-Hastings: a sampling technique used to generate a Markov chain of states with desired probabilities by ...
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How to generate force-fields for RASPA2?
Just getting into RASPA (https://github.com/iRASPA/RASPA2). I need to generate forcefields, I would like to use UFF (Universal Force Field), how do I go about doing this?
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What is the minimum number of atoms required to run a Monte Carlo simulation meaningfully?
What is the minimum number of atoms required to run a Monte Carlo simulation meaningfully?
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How to choose between Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo when beginning to simulate either equilibrium or non-equilibrium systems?
Answers to Are MD and MC both able to study both equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems? include lots of examples pointing to "yes".
I'm currently faced with a task of modelings small ...
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Are MD and MC both parts of statistical physics?
Are MD (Molecular Dynamics) and MC (Monte Carlo) both parts of statistical physics or is only one of them?
If so, which branch (e.g., mechanics, thermodynamics, etc.) and why?
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Are MD and MC both able to study both equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems?
As far as I understand, a system in equilibrium is which already reached its equilibrium state. And, a non-equilibrium system is which hasn't reached its equilibrium state yet.
Are MD (Molecular ...
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Can you supply me with some book names on MC protein simulation?
Is there any book written on protein simulation specifically using the Monte Carlo technique (i.e., not QM or MD)?
If so, can you supply me with some names of such books?
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Partial atomic charge from lodwin charge - quantum espresso [closed]
Looking to calculate partial atomic charges for a GCMC calculation. I have relaxed a structure with QE. Projwfc.x gives Lodwin charge of a Ni(II) atom as;
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Is RASPA2 a sensible Monte Carlo software to find adsorption sites within porous materials?
Looking to find sorption sites of species including (H2, CO2, and N2) within porous materials (metal-organic frameworks) for further DFT work. Is RASPA2 a sensible Monte Carlo software to achieve this?...
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Layer detection in a crystal structure
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I have two images from a Monte Carlo Basin Hopping where silicon (in yellow) is getting replaced by germanium (in blue). Both have 32 germanium atoms at Si/Ge = 2.5; only the Ge distribution ...
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Python script for Metropolis Monte Carlo (global optimisation)
I have written a python script to do global optimisation on interatomic potential (IP) using Metropolis Monte Carlo.
I have attached the part of the script which is the Metropolis MC part.
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how to incorporate size polydispersity in colloidal suspensions [closed]
Basically, I'm working on spherical colloids and investigating the phase behavior of these monodisperse colloids using Monte Carlo simulations (Fortran 77 coding). Now I want to introduce size ...
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Generalization of always accepting box upscaling moves in Monte Carlo for a triclinic box
When you are using Monte Carlo scheme to simulate equilibrium phases of convex hard-core molecules, namely, whose energy is infinite when in contact and 0 otherwise in a standard, cubic simulation box,...
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How do I initialize the lattice/grid in a Potts Model?
I am studying the Cellular Potts Model Tutorial.
However, this doesn't say anything about the grid/lattice initialization.
How do I initialize the lattice/grid in a Potts Model?
I.e., how do I assign ...
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How do I calculate the acceptance criterion for configuration bias sampling of my polymer?
I am running a lattice simulation of a single chain polymer on a lattice with every other site occupied by solvent. The additional wrinkle is that every particle on the lattice has a number/spin ...
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How to rigorously prove the existence of a coil-globule transition of polymers in an on-lattice simulation? [closed]
I am running on-lattice simulations of polymers. I am testing out different Hamiltonians and testing different regimes to test if they yield interesting behavior. My question is, how do I rigorously ...
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What are the similarities between MD and MC in the case of protein simulation? [closed]
As far as I understand, both MD and MC simulation methods use Force Fields.
Are there any other similarities between them?
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Regarding use of GCMC to add water molecules
I am working on a goethite system, and wish to fill the unit cell with water molecules for AIMD simulation using quantum espresso. For this, some papers[1],[2] indicated the use of Grand Canonical ...
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Why do we even need periodic boundary conditions?
According to Wikipedia -
Periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) are a set of boundary conditions that are often chosen for approximating a large (infinite) system by using a small part called a unit ...
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Molecular MC simulation is not equilibrating [closed]
Suppose, a polymer has N monomers in its chain. I want to simulate its movement using the bead-spring model.
So, I wrote the following program in Python.
Polymer chain simulation with Monte Carlo ...
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What formula should I use to calculate the total energy of a linear polymer chain?
I am using the Bead-spring model to model a polymer chain.
Suppose, the polymer has 3 monomers in its chain:
$$\ce{A1-A2-A3}$$
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I can use the following formula to calculate the total Lennard-Jones ...
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Where should I apply the harmonic spring function in the case of polymer simulation? [closed]
I need to simulate the off-lattice movement of a polymer chain in a 3D space using Monte Carlo simulation. Note this is not a simulation of polymer growth; rather this is about polymer movement/motion....
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How should I calculate total potential in a polymer chain?
Suppose, a polymer has 3 monomers in its chain:
$$\ce{A1-A2-A3}$$
When calculating total LJ potential, do I need to calculate like this:
$$E(r_{12})+E(r_{23})+E(r_{31})$$
Or, do I calculate: $$E(r_{12}...
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What does it mean by pruning and enrichment in the case of Rosenbluth method? [closed]
As far as I understand:
Pruning means deleting something.
Enrich means to enhance/increase weight.
Now my question is, in the case of pruned-enriched Rosenbluth method (PERM):
For pruning/enriching, ...
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Polymer simulation [closed]
I am absolutely new to Polymer simulation. I am trying to understand the simulation by analyzing source code written by others.
Can anyone tell me what are the differences between the following three ...
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How to construct spinodal and binodal curves from a molecular simulation?
Pretty much what the title states: what is a procedure to construct a binodal and spinodal curve (temperature against composition)?
I am running an on-lattice polymer solution Monte Carlo simulation ...
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End-to-end correlation of polymers not decorrelating
I am running Monte Carlo simulations of polymers with nearest neighbor interactions only. For benchmarking purposes, I decided to run some excluded volume simulations (no overlaps) allowed on a 3D ...
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Some questions about implementing Swendsen-Wang algorithm
I have a lattice system with two types of sites, namely A and B. Both A and B have a possible up or down spin orientation. There exists $J_\textrm{aa,align}/J_\textrm{aa,mis}$, $J_\textrm{bb,align}/...
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Benchmarking Monte Carlo simulations of polymers
I have written a simulation engine in C++ to run a Monte Carlo simulation of polymers on a lattice. My code basically plants a polymer on a lattice, and performs certain Monte Carlo moves, including ...
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How often does one have to run polymer Monte Carlo moves to effectively sample phase space?
I have a polymer and solvent on a lattice, and I am performing an NVT Monte Carlo simulation. I am performing the following moves on it:
My question is, how should these moves be conducted to ...
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How do you incorporate hydrogen bonding into molecular simulations?
How do computer simulations of liquid hydrogen-bonding systems incorporate hydrogen bonding? Since I think hydrogen bonding has mixed covalent and electrostatic character, wouldn't you need something ...
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Discrete lattice polymer simulations
I am trying to develop phase coexistence curves for generic polymers. Of course, I can use standard Flory theory free energy functionals to do this, but I want to define my nearest neighbor polymer-...
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Simulating polymers using cellular automata?
I am a physics student, and I am working on my final year project, I am planning to simulate polymers using cellular automata. I am really struggling with this project, if someone can give me any ...
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Metropolis algorithm reduces energy in molecular simulation, but does not decrease euclidean distance
I am using an open source python package openmmtools to run a simple molecular simulation problem using the metropolis algorithm.
I first load a default system of particles (alanine-dipeptide in ...
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Starting configuration for a molecular simulation
When doing a computer simulation, what’s the best way to prepare a starting configuration to avoid biasing your results?
The book Computer Simulation of Liquids suggests putting the molecules on an ...
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Why is specific heat not zero at absolute zero?
In this old paper on Monte Carlo simulations of Lennard-Jones solid, specific heat behaviour (both $c_p$ and $c_v$) have been reported. As you can see from the picture below, both $c_p$ and $c_v$ goes ...
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Is there a more efficient hard sphere packing algorithm?
I am trying to pack hard-spheres in a unit cubical box, such that these spheres cannot overlap on each other. This is being done in Python.
I am given some packing fraction ...
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Are there examples of ab initio predictions on small molecules without the "major approximations"?
In most textbooks the precise Schrödinger euqation of a molecule is given (and the "beautiful thing" stops here), then born oppenheimer approximation is made, then layers of other ...
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Classical Monte Carlo vs. Molecular Dynamics
Both Classical Monte Carlo (MC) and Classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are used to perform simulations of ensembles of molecules. These MC calculations are calculating thermodynamic ...
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How does one compute the boiling point of a liquid made of a particular molecule?
This question is in relation to Anomalous boiling point of "iso-" alkanes on Chemistry SE.
I want to compute the boiling point of the different isomers of an n-carbon alkane to check what ...
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Coupling between 1st and 2nd order phase transitions? [closed]
I am seeking some models or references on how to couple, or what to take into consideration, while coupling first-order phase transitions (for magnetic systems) and second-order phase transitions, in ...
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Why does the Wolff algorithm slow down in a 4-body Ising model? [closed]
In the paper that introduced "Self-learning MC" (an ML-inspired MC technique, as I understand) the authors consider a many-body Ising model as an example to show the efficiency of their ...
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