Investigating Rare Events by Transition Interface Sampling

Daniele Moroni; Titus S. van Erp; Peter G. Bolhuis

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.033

paper

Investigating Rare Events by Transition Interface Sampling

arXiv:cond-mat/0311571 · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.033

Abstract

We briefly review simulation schemes for the investigation of rare transitions and we resume the recently introduced Transition Interface Sampling, a method in which the computation of rate constants is recast into the computation of fluxes through interfaces dividing the reactant and product state.

12 pages, 1 figure, contributed paper to the proceedings of NEXT 2003, Second Sardinian International Conference on News and Expectations in Thermostatistics, 21-28 Sep 2003, Cagliari (Italy)