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How is acceleration computed in the leap-frog algorithm in computer simulations of particles?
I am reading the book Computer Simulation of Liquids by Allen and Tildesley (here is another link). On page 80, the authors describe the leap-frog algorithm, which is used extensively in molecular ...
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Quantum Compting or DNA computing [closed]
My friend and me are working on DNA computing and on some improvements to it.
Of course, we are working on computing aspects of this branch. So, we have insufficient knowledge about physics and ...
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Modeling the trajectory of a particle in an Electric field [closed]
[This problem has been resolved, sorry for posting in the wrong forum!]
(I was trying to model the trajectory of a particle in an electric field.)
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Does the universe follow a general physical and computational principle of evolution?
Evolution is a principle in biology, whereby organisms evolve their ability to replicate and multiply in numbers over successive generations. From a computational point of view, the organisms employ a ...
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buiding circuits from color superconductors
caveat: the sort of exotic matter engineering in here is currently beyond the reach of our technology, but, that having been said:
Has their been any research on building models of these sorts of ...
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What do theoretical physicists need from computer scientists?
I recently co-authored a paper (not online yet unfortunately) with some chemists that essentially provided answers to the question, "What do chemists need from computer scientists?" This included the ...
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Why can't we set the lattice spacing 'a' in lattice QCD?
My question is to do with lattice QCD. In the lattice action there is a parameter, 'a', the lattice spacing in physical units.
However, if we want to generate a configuration with a certain lattice ...
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What programming languages would be helpful for a physicist to know? [closed]
From the vantage point of a physicist and the kind of problems he would like a computer program to solve, what are the essential programming languages that a physicist should know.
I know C++ and I ...
