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Monte Carlo Methods for the Self-Avoiding Walk

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A pedagogical review of Monte Carlo methods for self-avoiding walks can be found in this article, with emphasis on the extraordinarily efficient algorithms developed over the past decade and a review of the most popular algorithms.
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This article is a pedagogical review of Monte Carlo methods for the self-avoiding walk, with emphasis on the extraordinarily efficient algorithms developed over the past decade.

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Optimal shapes of compact strings

TL;DR: This problem is a mathematical idealization of situations commonly encountered in biology, chemistry and physics, involving the optimal structure of folded polymeric chains, and finds that, in cases where boundary effects are not dominant, helices with a particular pitch-radius ratio are selected.
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Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with bilby: validation and application to the first LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

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TL;DR: This work demonstrates that bilby produces reliable results for simulated gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers, and verify that it accurately reproduces results reported for the 11 GWTC-1 signals.
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Geometry and symmetry presculpt the free-energy landscape of proteins.

TL;DR: This work shows that the inherent anisotropy of a chain molecule, the geometrical and energetic constraints placed by the hydrogen bonds and sterics, and hydrophobicity are sufficient to yield a free-energy landscape with broad minima even for a homopolymer.
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Molecular and Mesoscale Simulation Methods for Polymer Materials

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of some of the more popular simulation methods for modeling polymeric materials and their properties and behavior, as well as the structural properties that lead to them.
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Evidence for a link between global lightning activity and upper tropospheric water vapour

TL;DR: It is suggested that upper-tropospheric water-vapour changes can be inferred from records of global lightning activity, readily obtained from observations at a single location on the Earth's surface.
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The self-avoiding walk

Neal Madras, +1 more
TL;DR: A unified account of the rigorous results for the self-avoiding walk, focusing on its critical behaviour, is given in this article, where the lace explosion and its application in more than four dimensions where most issues are now resolved.
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Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations in polymer science

Kurt Binder
TL;DR: In this article, Monte Carlo Methods for the Self-Avoiding Walk and Monte Carlo Simulation of Neutral and Charged Polymer Solutions: Effects of Long-range Interactions are presented.
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The pivot algorithm: A highly efficient Monte Carlo method for the self-avoiding walk

TL;DR: This paper finds that the pivot algorithm is extraordinarily efficient: one “effectively independent” sample can be produced in a computer time of orderN, and presents a rigorous proof of ergodicity and numerical results on self-avoiding walks in two and three dimensions.
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Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Mechanics: Foundations and New Algorithms

TL;DR: These notes are an updated version of lectures given at the Cours de Troisieme Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande (Lausanne, Switzerland) in June 1989.
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Critical behavior of two-dimensional spin models and charge asymmetry in the Coulomb gas

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the q-state Potts model and then-vector model are equivalent to a Coulomb gas with an asymmetry between positive and negative charges.