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CHEMICAL POTENTIAL BY SIMULATION
Widom, Nezbeda-Kolafa and all that
Franz J. Vesely
April 2002
Widom introduced the ``test particle insertion'' technique (1963)
to evaluate the chemical potential. A problem with the method is
its low efficiency at high densities.
In 1991 Nezbeda and Kolafa augmented Widom's method by adding scaled
particle ideas to improve the efficiency.
F. J. Vesely / University of Vienna