Models and algorithms for the next generation of glass transition studies

A Ninarello, L Berthier, D Coslovich - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Successful computer studies of glass-forming materials need to overcome both the natural
tendency to structural ordering and the dramatic increase of relaxation times at low …

GPU accelerated population annealing algorithm

LY Barash, M Weigel, M Borovský, W Janke… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Population annealing is a promising recent approach for Monte Carlo simulations in
statistical physics, in particular for the simulation of systems with complex free-energy …

Understanding population annealing Monte Carlo simulations

M Weigel, L Barash, L Shchur, W Janke - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Population annealing is a recent addition to the arsenal of the practitioner in computer
simulations in statistical physics and it proves to deal well with systems with complex free …

Optimization of population annealing Monte Carlo for large-scale spin-glass simulations

A Barzegar, C Pattison, W Wang, HG Katzgraber - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Population annealing Monte Carlo is an efficient sequential algorithm for simulating k-local
Boolean Hamiltonians. Because of its structure, the algorithm is inherently parallel and …

Weighted averages in population annealing: Analysis and general framework

PL Ebert, D Gessert, M Weigel - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Population annealing is a powerful sequential Monte Carlo algorithm designed to study the
equilibrium behavior of general systems in statistical physics through massive parallelism. In …

Analysis and optimization of population annealing

C Amey, J Machta - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Population annealing is an easily parallelizable sequential Monte Carlo algorithm that is
well suited for simulating the equilibrium properties of systems with rough free-energy …

Accelerating molecular dynamics simulations with population annealing

H Christiansen, M Weigel, W Janke - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Population annealing is a powerful tool for large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. We adapt
this method to molecular dynamics simulations and demonstrate its excellent accelerating …

Equilibrium microcanonical annealing for first-order phase transitions

N Rose, J Machta - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
A framework is presented for carrying out simulations of equilibrium systems in the
microcanonical ensemble using annealing in an energy ceiling. The framework …

Structure ordering and glass transition in size-asymmetric ternary mixtures of hard spheres: Variation from fragile to strong glasses

A Singh, Y Singh - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We investigate the structure and activated dynamics of a binary mixture of colloidal particles
dispersed in a solvent of much smaller-sized particles. The solvent degrees of freedom are …

Theoretical estimate of the glass transition line of Yukawa one-component plasmas

F Lucco Castello, P Tolias - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The mode coupling theory of supercooled liquids is combined with advanced closures to the
integral equation theory of liquids in order to estimate the glass transition line of Yukawa one …