Accelerated dynamics of bead-spring polymer chains

We present results from the application of the recently generalized parallel replica method to a system of bead-spring polymer chains. The statistics of chain breakage show that individual chains, after a relatively short dephasing time, display an exponential distribution of breakage times over a wide range of extension ratios, thereby allowing us to exploit the notion of the quasi-stationary distribution and accelerate the dynamical evolution of a representative volume element.