Abstract
As we saw earlier on, once the soundness of the basic ideas had been checked, most results obtained from computer simulation in the first few years, both in Monte Carlo and in molecular dynamics, consisted in studying a few interesting kinds of behaviour (such as phase transitions) of ideal systems (hard spheres, rigid disks), or in the simulation of realistic models of more and more complex physical systems (from argon atoms to water molecules, down to the first attempts to reconstruct large biological molecules)
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Battimelli, G., Ciccotti, G., Greco, P. (2020). Simulation Comes of Age. In: Computer Meets Theoretical Physics. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39399-1_6
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