Enhanced Sampling Techniques: Monte Carlo & Wang-Landau

This lecture introduces the enhanced sampling Wang-Landau Monte Carlo technique and its applications. It covers the motivation for enhanced sampling, the Monte Carlo approach, the Wang-Landau sampling scheme, and an example of the lumping algorithm. The challenges in predicting properties of amorphous solids and the potential energy landscape are discussed. The lecture also explains the Monte Carlo approach, the Metropolis scheme, and the Wang-Landau sampling scheme. It concludes with the lumping methodology and materials for further study.