Vettorel Thomas, Reigh Shang Yik, Yoon Do Y, Kremer Kurt
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 10 Ackermannweg, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Macromol Rapid Commun. 2009 Feb 18;30(4-5):345-51. doi: 10.1002/marc.200800627. Epub 2008 Dec 23.
A detailed analysis of the efficiency of a Monte-Carlo (MC) method employing non-local moves for simple lattice ring polymers is presented. While the introduction of kink-translocation moves for linear chains results in the expected speedup by a factor of the order of the number of sites, this is significantly reduced for a melt of rings.
