Recent Developments in Field-Theoretic Polymer Simulations

This presentation will address recent progress in methods and algorithms for conducting simulations of statistical field theory models of polymers and complex fluids beyond the mean-field approximation (as invoked, e.g., in self-consistent field theory). Topics to be discussed include regularization methods, improved stochastic integration algorithms for complex Langevin equations, techniques for locating phase boundaries, and systematic coarse-graining/renormalization techniques for multi-scale simulations. Early results on a promising ``coherent state'' formulation of polymer field theory will also be presented.