Improved Monte Carlo distribution
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 40 (10) , 7439-7442
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.40.7439
Abstract
The Monte Carlo technique of Ferrenberg and Swendsen [Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2635 (1988)] is improved by efficiently determining the tails of the Boltzmann distribution at the appropriate temperature. This is achieved by combining several distributions generated at different temperatures to form a composite distribution. The composite distribution leads to values of the specific heat and energy which are accurate over the entire temperature range of interest. Results illustrating these improvements are reported for the square two-dimensional Ising model.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Universality classes of theθandpointsPhysical Review B, 1989
- New Monte Carlo technique for studying phase transitionsPhysical Review Letters, 1988
- Conformation of a polymer chain at the theta’ point: Connection to the external perimeter of a percolation clusterPhysical Review B, 1987
- Nonuniversal critical dynamics in Monte Carlo simulationsPhysical Review Letters, 1987
- Study of the θ point by enumeration of self-avoiding walks on the triangular latticeJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1986
- The Monte Carlo method and correlated boundary conditionsJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1983
- Collapse transition and crossover scaling for self-avoiding walks on the diamond latticeJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1982
- Monte Carlo Estimation of the Free Energy by Multistage SamplingThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1972
- Bounded and Inhomogeneous Ising Models. I. Specific-Heat Anomaly of a Finite LatticePhysical Review B, 1969
- Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder TransitionPhysical Review B, 1944