A non-equilibrium Monte Carlo approach to potential refinement in inverse problems

Details A non-equilibrium Monte Carlo approach to potential refinement in inverse problems A non-equilibrium Monte Carlo approach to potential refinement in inverse problems

2003-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307613v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1626635

The inverse problem for a disordered system involves determining the interparticle interaction parameters consistent with a given set of experimental data. Recently, Rutledge has shown (Phys. Rev. E63, 021111 (2001)) that such problems can be generally expressed in terms of a grand canonical ensemble of polydisperse particles. Within this framework, one identifies a polydisperse attribute (`pseudo-species') $\sigma$ corresponding to some appropriate generalized coordinate of the system to hand. Associated with this attribute is a composition distribution $\bar\rho(\sigma)$ measuring the number of particles of each species. Its form is controlled by a conjugate chemical potential distribution $\mu(\sigma)$ which plays the role of the requisite interparticle interaction potential. Simulation approaches to the inverse problem involve determining the form of $\mu(\sigma)$ for which $\bar\rho(\sigma)$ matches the available experimental data. The difficulty in doing so is that $\mu(\sigma)$ is (in general) an unknown {\em functional} of $\bar\rho(\sigma)$ and must therefore be found by iteration. At high particle densities and for high degrees of polydispersity, strong cross coupling between $\mu(\sigma)$ and $\bar\rho(\sigma)$ renders this process computationally problematic and laborious. Here we describe an efficient and robust {\em non-equilibrium} simulation scheme for finding the equilibrium form of $\mu[\bar\rho(\sigma)]$. The utility of the method is demonstrated by calculating the chemical potential distribution conjugate to a specific log-normal distribution of particle sizes in a polydisperse fluid.

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