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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Monte Carlo rejection as a tool for measuring the energy landscape scaling of simple fluids
1Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Abstract:
A simple modification of the Monte Carlo algorithm is proposed to explore the topography and the scaling of the energy landscape. We apply this idea to a simple hard-core fluid. The results for different packing fractions show a power law scaling of the landscape boundary, with a characteristic scale that separates the values of the scaling exponents. Finally, it is shown how the topology determines the freezing point of the system due to the increasing importance and complexity of the boundary.
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