Computational steering in Monte Carlo simulations of thin film polystyrene

Author:

Mason Daniel R1,Sutton Adrian P2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials, Oxford UniversityOxford OX1 3PH, UK

2. Department of Physics, Imperial CollegeLondon SW7 2AZ, UK

Abstract

High molecular weight polymer systems show very long relaxation times, of the order of milliseconds or more. This time-scale proves practically inaccessible for atomic-scale dynamical simulation such as molecular dynamics. Even with a Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, the generation of statistically independent configurations is non-trivial. Many moves have been proposed to enhance the efficiency of MC simulation of polymers. Each is described by a proposal density ( x ′; x ): the probability of selecting the trial state x ′ given that the system is in the current state x . This proposal density must be parametrized for a particular chain length, chemistry and temperature. Choosing the correct set of parameters can greatly increase the rate at which the system explores its configuration space. Computational steering (CS) provides a new methodology for a systematic search to optimize the proposal densities for individual moves, and to combine groups of moves to greatly improve the equilibration of a model polymer system. We show that monitoring the correlation time of the system is an ideal single parameter for characterizing the efficiency of a proposal density function, and that this is best evaluated by a distributed network of replicas of the system, with the operator making decisions based on the averages generated over these replicas. We have developed an MC code for simulating an anisotropic atomistic bead model which implements the CS paradigm. We report simulations of thin film polystyrene.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics

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