Monte Carlo methods for estimating depletion potentials in highly size-asymmetrical hard sphere mixtures
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Monte Carlo methods for estimating depletion potentials in highly size-asymmetrical hard sphere mixtures.
We investigate Monte Carlo simulation strategies for determining the effective ("depletion") potential between a pair of hard spheres immersed in a dense sea of much smaller hard spheres. Two routes to the depletion potential are considered. The first is based on estimates of the insertion probability of one big sphere in the presence of the other; we describe and compare three such methods. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824137