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Lipid monolayers at high densities are modelled as rigid rods grafted to an interface at the sites of a regular lattice. The transition between the state where the rods are uniformly tilted to a disordered state with no (average) tilt is studied by computer simulation methods. For the one-dimensional model, the molecular dynamics approach is found much less suitable to equilibrate the system rather than Monte Carlo methods. Both in d=2 discretized versions of Monte Carlo codes are much more efficient than continuum Monte Carlo methods, in spite of huge storage requirements. While in d=l the transition occurs at temperature T=0 via the spontaneous creation of solitons, at d=2 a finite temperature first order transition occurs.
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Kreer, M., Scheringer, M., Binder, K., Kremer, K., Hilfer, R. (1993). Modelling of Orientational Ordering in Lipid Monolayers. In: Landau, D.P., Mon, K.K., Schüttler, HB. (eds) Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IV. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84878-0_13
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