%0 Journal Article
%T Tempering and Annealing in a Verdier-Stockmayer Polymer
%A E. R. Obias
%A R. S. Banzon
%J -
%D 2004
%X Two Monte Carlo methods, simulated annealing and parallel tempering, were applied to a Verdier-Stockmayer polymer. The efficiency of the two algorithms in exploring the lowest energy state possible for the model polymers was measured by the number of energy-degenerate configurations (configurations that have the same energy but are structurally different). Parallel tempering consistently explored more energy-degenerate configurations as compared with simulated annealing
%U http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/sciencediliman/article/view/87