title: Monte Carlo and event-driven dynamics of Brownian particles with orientational degrees of freedom.
abstract: Recently, a simple scaling argument was introduced that allows us to map, with some precautions, Brownian and Monte Carlo dynamics for spherical particles. Here, we extend the scaling to study systems that have orientational degrees of freedom and carefully asses its validity over a wide region of temperature and density. Our work allows us to devise a Brownian Monte Carlo algorithm that produces, to a good approximation, physically meaningful trajectories with a minimum programming effort, although at the expense of some sampling efficiency.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, "Sapienza" Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Flavio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Cristiano
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Michele
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marenduzzo
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sanz
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D010316:Particle Size