A NEW, EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR COMPUTING THE INTERACTION POTENTIAL OF HARD CYCLIC MULTIMER SYSTEMS

Abstract

Studies of efficiency of several methods for calculating the interaction potential of a pair of two-dimensional hard cyclic multimers – molecules formed by hard disks (atoms) placed at the vertices of a regular polygon – are reported in this work. Such hard-body particles, known as hard cyclic multimers, constitute a class of important reference systems in modeling structural and thermodynamic properties of molecular systems. A new method is proposed which can be easily implemented to Monte Carlo simulations of two dimensional cyclic multimers and which is faster than the fastest method used previously.

Keywords

• hard cyclic multimer
• hard potential
• computer simulation
• Monte Carlo method