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When Alexandrov described the computational strategy his team had developed, Petsev realized that the technique might offer a way to directly evaluate the configurational integral in statistical mechanics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

For decades, researchers have depended on indirect computational techniques such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations to estimate configurational integrals.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

"This breakthrough replaces century-old simulations and approximations of configurational integral with a first-principles calculation," said Duc Truong, Los Alamos scientist and lead author of the study published in Physical Review Materials.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

Di Genova, D., Romano, C., Giordano, D. & Alletti, M. Heat capacity, configurational heat capacity and fragility of hydrous magmas.

From Nature • Dec. 12, 2017

Visual representation, as opposed to language expression, attains coherence as a whole, and the whole is configurational.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai