Timeline for Practical use of the partition function in molecular simulations
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| Sep 11, 2022 at 4:12 | answer | added | Jaehoon Yang | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 21:12 | vote | accept | simulation_engine | ||
| Sep 21, 2021 at 19:14 | comment | added | a-cyclohexane-molecule | The partition function is impractical to compute, so the reason you never encounter it in simulation is because you can't work with it; the fact that the partition function is also the normalization constant for probabilities means that simulations have to work around this inconvenience instead. This is what motivates the use of Monte Carlo methods in simulation: you never have to work with absolute probabilities (hard to compute because of the partition function), but only their ratios (the partition function cancels out). | |
| Sep 18, 2021 at 22:00 | answer | added | Anger Density | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 18, 2021 at 0:09 | history | edited | orthocresol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Sep 17, 2021 at 23:55 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Sep 17, 2021 at 23:55 | history | asked | simulation_engine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |