Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Andersen thermostat couples the system to a heat bath via stochastic forces that modify the kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules. The time between collisions, or the number of collisions in some (short) time interval is decided randomly, with the following Poisson distribution,where is the stochastic collision frequency. Between collisions, the system evolves at constant energy. Upon a collision event the new momentum of the atom (or molecule) is chosen at random from a Boltzmann distribution at temperature . While in principle can adopt any value, there does exist an optimal choice,where is a dimensionless constant, is the thermal conductivity, is the volume, is the Boltzmann constant, and is the number density of particles, .Note: the Andersen thermostat should only be used for time-independent properties. Dynamic properties, such as the diffusion, should not be calculated if the system is thermostated using the Andersen algorithm.. }
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- Andersen_thermostat abstract "The Andersen thermostat couples the system to a heat bath via stochastic forces that modify the kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules. The time between collisions, or the number of collisions in some (short) time interval is decided randomly, with the following Poisson distribution,where is the stochastic collision frequency. Between collisions, the system evolves at constant energy. Upon a collision event the new momentum of the atom (or molecule) is chosen at random from a Boltzmann distribution at temperature . While in principle can adopt any value, there does exist an optimal choice,where is a dimensionless constant, is the thermal conductivity, is the volume, is the Boltzmann constant, and is the number density of particles, .Note: the Andersen thermostat should only be used for time-independent properties. Dynamic properties, such as the diffusion, should not be calculated if the system is thermostated using the Andersen algorithm.".