Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2003-10-21
J. Chem. Phys. 120, 4119 (2004).
Physics
Chemical Physics
11 pages, 4 figures; minor changes; to appear in J. Chem. Phys
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1644093
We show that the acceptance probability for swaps in the parallel tempering Monte Carlo method for classical canonical systems is given by a universal function that depends on the average statistical fluctuations of the potential and on the ratio of the temperatures. The law, called the incomplete beta function law, is valid in the limit that the two temperatures involved in swaps are close to one another. An empirical version of the law, which involves the heat capacity of the system, is developed and tested on a Lennard-Jones cluster. We argue that the best initial guess for the distribution of intermediate temperatures for parallel tempering is a geometric progression and we also propose a technique for the computation of optimal temperature schedules. Finally, we demonstrate that the swap efficiency of the parallel tempering method for condensed-phase systems decreases naturally to zero at least as fast as the inverse square root of the dimensionality of the physical system.
Ciobanu Cristian V.
Predescu Cristian
Predescu Mihaela
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