The Approach to Ergodicity in Monte Carlo Simulations

Details The Approach to Ergodicity in Monte Carlo Simulations The Approach to Ergodicity in Monte Carlo Simulations

2000-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0008245v1

Physics

Chemical Physics

17 Pages, 7 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.62.7445

The approach to the ergodic limit in Monte Carlo simulations is studied using both analytic and numerical methods. With the help of a stochastic model, a metric is defined that enables the examination of a simulation in both the ergodic and non-ergodic regimes. In the non-ergodic regime, the model implies how the simulation is expected to approach ergodic behavior analytically, and the analytically inferred decay law of the metric allows the monitoring of the onset of ergodic behavior. The metric is related to previously defined measures developed for molecular dynamics simulations, and the metric enables the comparison of the relative efficiencies of different Monte Carlo schemes. Applications to Lennard-Jones 13-particle clusters are shown to match the model for Metropolis, J-walking and parallel tempering based approaches. The relative efficiencies of these three Monte Carlo approaches are compared, and the decay law is shown to be useful in determining needed high temperature parameters in parallel tempering and J-walking studies of atomic clusters.

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