Derivation of the residence time for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

2007/12/14 by Clinton DeW. Van Siclen, Van Siclen, Clinton DeW.
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Machine Learning in Materials Science #physics.comp-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0712.2464

9 pages, 0 figures; 4 pages, improved format

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Abstract

The kinetic Monte Carlo method is a standard approach for simulating physical systems whose dynamics are stochastic or that evolve in a probabilistic manner. Here we show how to calculate the system time for such simulations.

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