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| '''Monte Carlo''' is a stochastic [[Computer simulation techniques | computer simulation technique]] frequently used in the study of
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| soft matter.
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| *[[Basin-hopping Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Cluster algorithms]]
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| *[[Concerted rotation algorithm]]
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| *[[Configurational bias Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Constant-pressure Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Detailed balance]] | |
| *[[End-bridging Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Fragment regrowth Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Gibbs-Duhem integration]]
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| *[[Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Glauber transition probabilities]] also known as: Barkers method
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| *[[Grand canonical Monte Carlo | Grand-canonical Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Histogram reweighting]]
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| *[[Importance sampling]]
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| *[[Inverse Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Kinetic Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Lattice simulations (Polymers)]] | |
| *[[Markov chain]]
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| *[[Mayer sampling Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Metropolis Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Metropolis-Hastings Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Monte Carlo in the microcanonical ensemble]]
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| *[[Monte Carlo reptation moves]]
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| *[[Overlapping distribution method]]
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| *[[Parrinello-Rahman barostat]]
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| *[[Phase switch Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Quantum Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Random numbers]] | | *[[Random numbers]] |
| *[[Recoil growth]]
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| *[[Reverse Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[RIS Metropolis Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Simulated annealing]]
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| *[[Tethered Monte Carlo]]
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| *[[Umbrella sampling]]
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| *[[Wang-Landau method]]
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| *[[Waste recycling Monte Carlo]]
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| }}
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| ==Historical papers==
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| *[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-1459%28194909%2944%3A247%3C335%3ATMCM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 Nicholas Metropolis and S. Ulam "The Monte Carlo Method", Journal of the American Statistical Association '''44''' pp. 335-341 (1949)]
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| ==General reading==
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| *[http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198556459 M. P. Allen and D. J. Tildesley "Computer Simulation of Liquids", Oxford University Press (1989)] Chapter 4.
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| *[http://molsim.chem.uva.nl/frenkel_smit Daan Frenkel and Berend Smit "Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications", Second Edition (2002)] ISBN 0-12-267351-4 Chapter 3.
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| *[http://www.fz-juelich.de/nic-series/volume23/frenkel.pdf Daan Frenkel "Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods", in ''Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins'', NIC Series '''Volume 23''' (2004)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.2277/0521842387 David P. Landau and Kurt Binder "A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics", 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press (2005)]
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| [[category: Computer simulation techniques]]
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