Tuesday, 1 November 2005 - 5:15 PM
259i

On Fluctuations in Polymer Solutions: Field Theoretic Simulations

Kirill Katsov, Materials Research Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 and Glenn Fredrickson, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5121.

We use variety of approaches to sample equilibrium fluctuations in polymer systems within a field theoretic framework. Comparison of (complex) Langevin and (smart) Monte Carlo sampling techniques is presented with special attention paid to their efficient implementation.

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