Coarse graining

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Coarse graining is a computer simulation technique for reducing the number of degrees of freedom of a system. Such coarse graining provides access to longer time scales or larger effective system sizes.

References

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  3. Paola Carbone, Hossein Ali Karimi Varzaneh, Xiaoyu Chen, and Florian Müller-Plathe "Transferability of coarse-grained force fields: The polymer case", Journal of Chemical Physics 128 064904 (2008)