Publications

Refereed publications

• Transitions between imperfectly ordered crystalline structures: A phase switch Monte Carlo study
  D. Wilms, N.B. Wilding, and K. Binder, Phys. Rev. E 85, 056703 (2012)

• Depletion potentials in highly size-asymmetrical hard-sphere mixtures
  D.J. Ashton, N.B. Wilding, R. Roth, R. Evans, Phys. Rev. E 84, 061136 (2011)

• Accurate simulation estimates of phase behaviour in ternary mixtures with prescribed composition.
  N.B. Wilding, J. Stat. Phys. 144, 652 (2011)

• Polydispersity induced solid-solid transitions in model colloids.
  P. Sollich and N.B. Wilding, Soft Matter, 7, 4472 (2011). (Selected as "Hot article " by Soft Matter)

• Phase behaviour of polydisperse spheres: simulation strategies and an application to the freezing transition.
  N.B. Wilding and P. Sollich, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 224102 (2010).

• Monte Carlo cluster algorithm for fluid phase transitions in highly size-asymmetrical binary mixtures.
  D.J. Ashton, J. Liu, E. Luijten and N.B. Wilding, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 194102 (2010); Selected as JCP "Research Highlight".

• Grand canonical simulations of phase behaviour in highly size-asymmetrical fluid mixtures
  D.J. Ashton and N.B. Wilding, Mol. Phys. 109, 999 (2011) (Invited contribution to festschrift in honour of R. Evans)

• Crystalline phases of polydisperse spheres
  P. Sollich and N.B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 118302 (2010)

• Fluid phase coexistence and critical behaviour from simulations in the restricted Gibbs ensemble.
  D.J. Ashton, N.B. Wilding and P. Sollich, J. Chem. Phys. 132, 074111 (2010)

• Solid-liquid coexistence of polydisperse fluids via simulation
  N.B. Wilding, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 104103 (2009).

• Freezing parameters of soft spheres
  N.B. Wilding, Mol. Phys. 107, 295 (2009) (Invited contribution to festschrift in honour of J.J. Weis)

• A polydisperse lattice-gas model
  N.B. Wilding, P. Sollich and M. Buzzacchi, Phys. Rev. E77, 011501 (2008)

• Phase behavior of a fluid with competing attractive and repulsive interactions
  A.J. Archer and N.B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 76, 031501 (2007)

• Condensation in a capped capillary is a continuous critical phenomenon
  A.O. Parry, C. Rascon, N.B. Wilding and R. Evans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 226101 (2007)

• Phase behaviour of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
  J. Köfinger, N.B. Wilding and G. Kahl, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 23450 (2006)

• Wetting transitions in polydisperse fluids
  M. Buzzacchi, N.B. Wilding and P. Sollich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 136104 (2006)

• Simulation of phase transitions in highly asymmetric fluid mixtures
  Jiwen Liu, Nigel B. Wilding and Erik Luijten, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115705 (2006)

• Phase behaviour and particle-size cutoff effects in polydisperse fluids
  N.B. Wilding, P. Sollich, M. Fasolo and M. Buzzacchi, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 014908 (2006) 

• Phase behaviour of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture in a field
  J. Köfinger, G. Kahl and N.B. Wilding, Europhys. Lett. 75, 234 (2006)

• Metastable liquid-liquid coexistence and thermodynamic anomalies in a core-softened fluid
  H.M. Gibson and N.B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 73, 061507 (2006) 

• Simulation estimates of cloud points of polydisperse fluids
  M Buzzacchi, P. Sollich, N.B. Wilding and M. Müller, Phys. Rev. E 73, 046110 (2006) 

• Freezing line of the Lennard-Jones fluid: a phase switch Monte Carlo study
  G.C. McNeil-Watson and N.B. Wilding J. Chem. Phys. 124, 064504 (2006) 

• Finite-size scaling and particle-size cutoff effects in phase separating polydisperse fluids
  N.B. Wilding, P. Sollich and M. Fasolo. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 155701 (2005) 

• Influence of polydispersity on the critical parameters of an effective potential model for asymmetric hard sphere mixtures
  J. Largo and N.B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 73, 036115 (2006) 

• Liquid-vapor phase behaviour of a polydisperse Lennard-Jones fluid
  N.B. Wilding and P. Sollich, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, S3245 (2005) 

• Liquid-vapor interface of a polydisperse fluid
  M. Buzzacchi and N.B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 71, 066126 (2005) 

• Polydisperse hard spheres at a hard wall
  M. Buzzacchi, I. Pagonabarraga and N.B. Wilding, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 11362 (2004) 

• Liquid-gas coexistence and critical point shifts in polydisperse fluids
  N.B. Wilding, M. Fasolo and P. Sollich, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 6887 (2004) 

• Phase equilibria and fractionation in a polydisperse fluid
  N.B. Wilding and P. Sollich, Europhys. Lett. 67, 219 (2004) 

• A non-equilibrium Monte Carlo approach to potential refinement in inverse problems
  N.B. Wilding, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 12163 (2003) 

• Second order demixing at liquid-vapor coexistence in a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
  N.B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 67, 052503 (2003) 

• Phase behaviour and thermodynamic anomalies of core softened particles
  N.B. Wilding and J.E. Magee. Phys. Rev. E 66, 031509 (2002) 

• Wetting properties of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
  N.B. Wilding and F. Schmid. Comp. Phys. Commun. 147, 149 (2002)

• The Lennard-Jones-Devonshire cell model revisited
  J.E. Magee and N.B. Wilding. Mol. Phys. 100, 1641 (2002) 

• Effects of weak surface fields on the absorption of a confined fluid near bulk criticality
  A. Maciolek, R. Evans and N.B. Wilding. J. Chem. Phys. 119, 8663 (2003)

• Grand canonical simulation studies of polydisperse fluids
  N.B. Wilding and P. Sollich. J. Chem. Phys. 116, 7116 (2002) 

• Computational strategies for mapping equilibrium phase diagrams (Invited Review)
  A.D. Bruce and N.B. Wilding, Advances in Chemical Physics, 127, pp 1-64 (2003)

• A new simulation approach to the freezing transition.
  N.B. Wilding. Comp. Phys. Commun. 146, 99 (2002) 

• Wetting of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture on a wall
  F. Schmid and N.B. Wilding. Phys Rev. E63, 031201 (2001) 

• Liquid-gas phase behaviour of an argon-like fluid modelled by the hard-core two Yukawa potential
  D. Pini, G. Stell and N.B. Wilding, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 2702 (2001) 

• Computer simulation of fluid phase transitions
  N.B. Wilding. Am. J. Phys. 69, 1147 (2001) 

• Freezing by Monte Carlo Phase Switch
  N.B. Wilding and A.D. Bruce. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5138 (2000) 

• Lattice-switch Monte Carlo
  A.D. Bruce, A.N. Jackson, G.J. Ackland and N.B. Wilding. Phys. Rev. E, 906 (2000) 

• Effect of confinement on critical adsorption
  A. Maciolek, R. Evans and N.B. Wilding. Phys. Rev. E 60, 7105 (1999) 

• Critical point finite-size scaling in the microcanonical ensemble
  A.D.Bruce and N.B. Wilding. Phys. Rev. E. 60, 3748 (1999) 

• Absence of simulation evidence for critical depletion in slit-pores
  N.B. Wilding and M. Schoen. Phys. Rev. E. 60, 1081 (1999) 

• Recoil growth: an efficient simulation method for multi-polymer systems
  S. Consta, N.B. Wilding, D. Frenkel and Z. Alexandrowicz. J. Chem. Phys. 110, 3220 (1999) 

• A liquid state theory that remains successful in the critical region
  D. Pini, G. Stell and N.B. Wilding, Mol. Phys. 95, 483 (1998) 

• Liquid-vapour phase behaviour of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
  N.B. Wilding, F. Schmid and P. Nielaba, Phys. Rev. E 58, 2201 (1998) 

• Effect of criticality on wetting layers: A Monte Carlo simulation study
  N.B. Wilding, M. Krech, Phys. Rev. E 57, 5795 (1998) 

• Free energies of crystalline solids: A lattice-switch Monte Carlo method
  A.D. Bruce, N.B. Wilding, G.J. Ackland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3002 (1997) 

• Critical end point behaviour in a binary fluid mixture
  N.B. Wilding. Phys. Rev. E 55, 6624 (1997) 

• Coexistence curve singularities at critical end points
  N.B. Wilding. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1488 (1997) 

• Tricritical behaviour in a two-dimensional fluid
  N.B. Wilding. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 8, 9637 (1996) 

• Simulation studies of fluid critical phenomena (Invited review)
  N.B. Wilding. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 9, 585 (1997) 

• Finite-size scaling for near-critical fluids at constant pressure
  N. B. Wilding and K. Binder. Physica A 231, 439 (1996) 

• Critical phenomena in simple and complex fluids
  N. B. Wilding. Vol. IV of "Annual Review of Computational Physics", Ed.: D. Stauffer (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996) 

• Errors in Monte-Carlo simulations using shift register random number generators
  F. Schmid and N. B. Wilding, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 6, 781 (1995) 

• Chain length dependence of the polymer-solvent critical point parameters
  N.B. Wilding, M. Müller and K. Binder, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 802 (1996) 

• Tricritical universality in a two-dimensional spin fluid.
  N. B. Wilding and P. Nielaba, Phys. Rev. E 53, 926 (1996) 

• Critical point and coexistence curve properties of the Lennard-Jones fluid: A finite-size scaling study
  N. B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 52, 602 (1995) 

• Accurate measurements of the chemical potential of polymeric systems by Monte Carlo simulation
  N. B. Wilding and M. Müller, J. Chem. Phys. 101, 4324 (1994) 

• Concentration and energy fluctuations in a critical polymer mixture
  M. Müller and N. B. Wilding, Phys. Rev. E 51 2079 (1995) 

• Are critical finite-size-scaling functions calculable from knowledge of an appropriate critical exponent?
  R. Hilfer and N. B. Wilding. J. Phys. A 28 L281 (1995) 

• Liquid-vapour asymmetry in pure fluids: a Monte-Carlo simulation study
  N. B. Wilding and M. Müller, J. Chem. Phys. 102, 2562 (1995) 

• A Monte Carlo study of the Ising model with uniaxial anisotropy
  N. B. Wilding and D. W. Heermann, J. Magn. Magn. Matter. 135, 51 (1994) 

• Domain growth and finite-size scaling in the kinetic Ising model.
  N. B. Wilding, C. Münkel and D. W. Heermann, Z. Phys. B 94, 301 (1994) 

• Critical point field mixing in an asymmetric lattice gas model.
  N. B. Wilding, Z. Phys. B 93, 119 (1993) 

• Structural studies of cyclohexane IV
  N.B. Wilding, J. Crain, P.D. Hatton and G. Bushnell-Wye, Acta. Cryst. B 49, 320 (1993) 

• Density fluctuations and field mixing in the critical fluid
  N. B. Wilding and A.D. Bruce, J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 4, 3087 (1992) 

• Scaling fields and universality of the liquid-gas critical point
  A.D. Bruce and N. B. Wilding Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 193 (1992) 

• Scientific modelling with massively parallel SIMD computers
  N.B. Wilding, A.S. Trew, K.A. Hawick and G.S. Pawley, Proc IEEE 79, 574 (1991) 

• High pressure phases of cyclohexane-d_12
  N.B. Wilding, P.D. Hatton, G.S. Pawley, Acta. Cryst. B 47, 797 (1991) 

• The application of neutron powder diffraction techniques for crystallographic studies at high pressures.
  P.D. Hatton, C.J. Howard M.I. McMahon R.J. Nelmes and N.B. Wilding; High Pressure Research 4, 450 (1990) 

• Pressure dependence of the structure of La-Sr-Cu-O.
  R.J. Nelmes, N.B. Wilding, P.D. Hatton, V. Caignaert and B. Raveau, Physica C 166, 329 (1990) 

• The phases and dynamics of Succinonitrile
  G. Dosseh G., C. Fressigne, B. Rousseau, N.B. Wilding, A.H. Fuchs. J. Chim. Phys. 87, 1821 (1990) 

Conference Papers

• Generic sampling strategies for Monte Carlo simulation of phase behaviour.
  N.B. Wilding. Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, 703, 39 (2006) 

• Phase Switch Monte Carlo
  N.B. Wilding
  Proceedings of Monte Carlo Methods in the Physical Sciences, Los Alamos (2003) 
• Monte Carlo methods for bridging the timescale gap.
  N.B. Wilding and D.P. Landau.
  Proceedings of SIMU meeting "Bridging the timescale gap", Springer (2002) 
• Statistical ensembles for Monte Carlo simulation.
  N.B. Wilding.
  Proceedings of NATO ASI "Computer simulation of surfaces and interfaces", Kluwer (2003) 
• Continuous Phase transitions.
  N.B. Wilding.
  Proceedings of NATO ASI "Computer simulation of surfaces and interfaces", Kluwer (2003) 
• The phases of cyclohexane predicted by MD simulation
  A.S. Trew, N.B. Wilding and G.S. Pawley; CF90 Europhysics Conference on Computational Physics (ed. A. Tenner, World Scientific, 1990) 
• Application of finite-size scaling techniques to the simulation of critical fluids.
  N. B. Wilding, Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter Physics VIII. (Eds. D.P. Landau, K.K. Mon and H.B. Schüttler (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1995) 
• Simulation of Phase Transitions in Polymer Systems
  K. Binder, M. Müller and N.B. Wilding; Proc. ``Multiscale phenomena and their simulations", Univ. Bielefeld 1996, (World Scientific, Singapore 1997) 
• Polymeric Alloys: Model material for the understanding of the statistical thermodynamics of mixtures
  K. Binder, M. Müller and N.B. Wilding; Proc. 1st Inter. Alloy Conference ``Properties of complex Inorganic solids'' (A. Gonis ed.) Plenum, New York (1997)

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