Computational Statistical Mechanics of a confined, three-dimensional Coulomb gas
arXiv:2004.11189 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.042137
Abstract
The thermodynamic properties of systems with long-range interactions is still an ongoing challenge, both from the point of view of theory as well as computer simulation. In this work we study a model system, a Coulomb gas confined inside a sphere, by using the Wang-Landau algorithm. We have computed the configurational density of states (CDOS), the thermodynamic entropy and the caloric curve, and compared with microcanonical Metropolis simulations, while showing how concepts such as the configurational inverse temperature can be used to understand some aspects of thermodynamic behavior. A dynamical multistability behavior is seen at low energies in microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations, suggesting that flat-histogram methods are in fact superior alternatives to traditional simulation in complex systems.
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