On the Monte Carlo method for sticky disks (original) (raw)

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1994

Abstract

It is shown that the finding of Stell [J. Stat. Phys. 63, 1203 (1991)] that sticky systems are not thermodynamically stable has for the consequence that custom tailored Monte Carlo methods, which sample the configurational phase space in an apparently successful way, break down if the methods are generalized in such a way that several particles instead of one particle are moved simultaneously to new position. Due to diverging integrals which are supposed to determine the probability of clusters with maximal connectivity, one can expect the system would always proceed toward the state of maximal degree of aggregation without respect to the strength of the potential.

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