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Computation of Atmospheric Concentrations of Molecular Clusters from ab initio Thermochemistry
Published on: April 8, 2020
Swap Monte Carlo algorithm for diatomic molecules
Till Böhmer1, Jeppe C Dyre2, Lorenzo Costigliola2
1German Aerospace Center, Roskilde University, Glass and Time, IMFUFA, Department of Science and Environment, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark and Institute of Frontier Materials on Earth and in Space, D-51147 Cologne, Germany.
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In recent years the swap Monte Carlo algorithm has led to remarkable progress in equilibrating supercooled model liquids at low temperatures. Applications have so far been limited to systems composed of spherical particles, however, whereas most real-world supercooled liquids are molecular. We introduce here a simple size-polydisperse molecular model that allows for efficient thermal equilibration in silico with the swap Monte Carlo method, resulting in an estimated speedup of 10^{3}-10^{6} at moderate polydispersity (5%-10%). The model exhibits little difference between size-resolved orientational time-autocorrelation functions.
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