Fast Monte Carlo algorithms for knotted polymers
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 52 (1) , 1176-1180
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.52.1176
Abstract
Fast implementations of the kink-jump-crankshaft and Berg-Foerster-Aragao de Carvalho-Caracciolo-Froehlich (BFACF) algorithms are discussed and applied to the study of topologically knotted polymers. The effect of knots on the size scaling laws of polymers is investigated. Finally, a comparison between the size scaling of the kink-jump-crankshaft and BFACF alogorithms is madeKeywords
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