Open Collections will undergo maintenance on Thursday, July 24th, 2025. The site will not be available from 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST and performance may be impacted from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST.

BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos

Banff International Research Station Logo

BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos

Recent advances in the Monte Carlo sampling of polymer configurations Clisby, Nathan

Description

I will discuss work in progress to extend the use of efficient data structures from lattice self-avoiding walks to the Monte Carlo sampling of configurations for other polymer models. In particular, I will discuss the sampling of dense polymer configurations (in fact, Hamiltonian paths) via so-called backbite moves, and the sampling of continuum polymers in the self-avoiding walk universality class via an efficient implementation of the pivot algorithm.

Item Media

Item Citations and Data

Rights

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International