Heat Bath Efficiency with Metropolis-Type Updating

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7 March 2005

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

We illustrate for 4D SU(2) and U(1) lattice gauge theory that sampling with a biased Metropolis scheme is essentially equivalent to using the heat bath algorithm. Only, the biased Metropolis method can also be applied when an efficient heat bath algorithm does not exist.

Keywords

HEAT BATH ALGORITHM
METROPOLIS TYPE
BATH EFFICIENCY
TYPE UPDATING
EFFICIENCY

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Version 1, 2005-03-07, ArXiv
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Published version: Physical Review D, 71 (11).

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