scholarly journals Comment on "Monte Carlo Simulation of a First-Order Transition for Protein Folding"

1995 ◽  
Vol 99 (7) ◽  
pp. 2236-2237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd A. Berg ◽  
Ulrich H. E. Hansmann ◽  
Yuko Okamoto
2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (12n13) ◽  
pp. 937-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANH-TAI HOANG ◽  
YANN MAGNIN ◽  
H. T. DIEP

We study in this paper the resistivity encountered by Ising itinerant spins traveling in the so-called J1 - J2 frustrated simple cubic Ising lattice. For the lattice, we take into account the interactions between nearest-neighbors and next-nearest-neighbors, J1 and J2 respectively. Itinerant spins interact with lattice spins via a distance-dependent interaction. We also take into account an interaction between itinerant spins. The lattice is frustrated in a range of J2 in which we show that it undergoes a very strong first-order transition. Using Monte Carlo simulation, we calculate the resistivity ρ of the itinerant spins and show that the first-order transition of the lattice causes a discontinuity of ρ.


Author(s):  
Andrey Shobukhov ◽  
Hiroshi Koibuchi

We numerically study surface models defined on hexagonal disks with a free boundary. 2D surface models for planer surfaces have recently attracted interest due to the engineering applications of functional materials such as graphene and its composite with polymers. These 2D composite meta-materials are strongly influenced by external stimuli such as thermal fluctuations if they are sufficiently thin. For this reason, it is very interesting to study the shape stability/instability of thin 2D materials against thermal fluctuations. In this paper, we study three types of surface models including Landau-Ginzburg (LG) and Helfirch-Polyakov models defined on triangulated hexagonal disks using the parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulation technique. We find that the planer surfaces undergo a first-order transition between the smooth and crumpled phases in the LG model and continuous transitions in the other two models. The first-order transition is relatively weaker compared to the transition on spherical surfaces already reported. The continuous nature of the transition is consistent with the reported results, although the transitions are stronger than that of the reported ones.


2010 ◽  
Vol 654-656 ◽  
pp. 1512-1515
Author(s):  
Kazufumi Sato ◽  
Satoshi Takizawa ◽  
Tetsuo Mohri

We investigate the melting transition of the solids interacting through a simple pairwise potential using conventional and Wang-Landau Monte Carlo simulation. In the simulations, the atomic displacement is discretized for describing the atomic vibration and each atom is confined within its Voronoi polyhedron. The melting point can be uniquely determined by Wang-Landau approach while the temperature hysteresis inevitably appears in the conventional method. The obtained results show typical feature of first-order transition which is the discontinuous change in the internal energy. We discuss the relation between the limit of superheated state and intrinsic instability of the system through the comparison with two results.


Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1360
Author(s):  
Andrey Shobukhov ◽  
Hiroshi Koibuchi

We numerically study surface models defined on hexagonal disks with a free boundary. 2D surface models for planar surfaces have recently attracted interest due to the engineering applications of functional materials such as graphene and its composite with polymers. These 2D composite meta-materials are strongly influenced by external stimuli such as thermal fluctuations if they are sufficiently thin. For this reason, it is very interesting to study the shape stability/instability of thin 2D materials against thermal fluctuations. In this paper, we study three types of surface models including Landau-Ginzburg (LG) and Helfirch-Polyakov models defined on triangulated hexagonal disks using the parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulation technique. We find that the planar surfaces undergo a first-order transition between the smooth and crumpled phases in the LG model and continuous transitions in the other two models. The first-order transition is relatively weak compared to the transition on spherical surfaces already reported. The continuous nature of the transition is consistent with the reported results, although the transitions are stronger than that of the reported ones.


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