Browsing Theses by Subject "monte carlo"
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Coarse-Grained Molecular Monte Carlo Simulations of Liquid Crystal-Nanoparticle Mixtures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Liquid crystals are a unique and complicated class of phases of matter, also called “mesophases”, which exhibit properties such as solid-like elasticity and anisotropy, and liquid-like flow. The industrial application of ... -
Explorations in machine learning for interacting many-body systems.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Most interacting many-body systems in physics are not analytically solvable. Instead, numerical methods are needed for the study of these complex and high-dimensional problems. At present, there are many interesting problems ... -
Implementations and applications of Renyi entanglement in Monte Carlo simulations of spin models
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Although entanglement is a well studied property in the context of quantum systems, the ability to measure it in Monte Carlo methods is relatively new. Through measures of the Renyi entanglement entropy and mutual information ... -
A Minimal Model for the Hydrophobic and Hydrogen Bonding Effects on Secondary and Tertiary Structure Formation in Proteins
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)A refinement of a minimal model for protein folding originally proposed by Imamura is presented. The representation of the alpha-helix has been improved by adding in explicit modelling of the entire peptide unit. A four-helix ... -
Modelling Acoustic Propagation with Dominant Paths
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-15)Hearing is one of our major senses. In addition to being, arguably, our primary form of communication, it affects how we perceive the world around us. Accurate acoustic simulation can complement graphical simulation systems, ... -
Octupolar Ordering in the b>0 Bilinear-Biquadratic Heisenberg Pyrochlore
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)We investigate the bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the pyrochlore lattice. While negative biquadratic couplings result in a first-order transition into a nematic ordered state with spins aligned mutually ...