Combination of improved multibondic method and the Wang-Landau method
- 22 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 65 (5) , 056710
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.056710
Abstract
We propose a method for Monte Carlo simulation of statistical physical models with discretized energy. The method is based on several ideas including the cluster algorithm, the multicanonical Monte Carlo method and its acceleration proposed recently by Wang and Landau. As in the multibondic ensemble method proposed by Janke and Kappler, the present algorithm performs a random walk in the space of the bond population to yield the state density as a function of the bond number. A test on the Ising model shows that the number of Monte Carlo sweeps required of the present method for obtaining the density of state with a given accuracy is proportional to the system size, whereas it is proportional to the system size squared for other conventional methods. In addition, the method shows a better performance than the original Wang-Landau method in measurement of physical quantities.Keywords
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