The static dielectric constant of the soft sticky dipole model of liquid water: Monte Carlo simulation

Recently, we have developed a new water potential (J. Phys. Chem. 100 (1996) 2723), which gives good descriptions of water and provides a 6–7 fold increase in computations speed in Monte Carlo simulations when compared to existing multi-site models. Here, the static dielectric constant of this model is calculated by Monte Carlo simulations employing the reaction field method. Also, a study of the influence of acceptance ratio on the calculated dielectric constant is made by varying the acceptance from 20 to 50%. The calculated dielectric constant converges to 81 and shows no correlation with the acceptance ratio.