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Carsten Peterson
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Blocking technique for emulating very large polyelectrolytes
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Summary, in English
A new Monte Carlo method for computing thermodynamical properties of very large polyelectrolytes is presented. It is based on a renormalization group relating the original polymer to a smaller system, where, in addition to the naively rescaled forces, a corrective nearest-neighbor interaction originating from the short distance Coulomb cutoff is introduced. The method is derived for low T but is in the unscreened case valid for all T. Large polymers with N monomers are emulated by Monte Carlo calculations on smaller systems, K = N/Q. The computational gain of the method is Q3 and is explored with emphasis on room temperature.
Department/s
- Computational Biology and Biological Physics - Has been reorganised
Publishing year
1996
Language
English
Pages
1079-1082
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
76
Issue
7
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0031-9007