Phase switch Monte Carlo

Errington, J. R., Solid-liquid phase coexistence of the Lennard-Jones system through phase-switch Monte Carlo simulation, J. Chem. Phys. 2004,120, 3130-3141... 

Prom Paths to Wormholes Phase Switch Monte Carlo. 60... 

Phase Switch Monte Carlo is a method for traversing an inter-phase path which avoids mixed phase stats by leaping directly from configurations of one pure phase to those of another pure phase (cf. Fig. 1(d)). The leap is implemented as a Monte Carlo move. It takes as its starting point the specification of a reference configuration i7 for each of the phases a coexisting at the phase boundary. The specific choice of i is arbitrary, the only condition... 

The strategy we shall discuss is a way of realizing the direct leap between phases represented in Fig. 2d. In the literature we have referred to it as Lattice Switch Monte Carlo [48, 56, 57] in the context of phase equilibrium between... 

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