Wang-Landau Monte Carlo simulation of isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals
Wang-Landau Monte Carlo simulation of isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals
Wang and Landau proposed recently, a simple and flexible non-Boltzmann Monte Carlo method for estimating the density of states, from which the macroscopic properties of a closed system can be calculated. They demonstrated their algorithm by considering systems with discrete energy spectrum. We find that the Wang-Landau algorithm does not …