Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-09-23
Phys.Rev.D83:054504,2011
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
6 pages, 3 figures, (v2) references added (v3) Sections IV, V and VI improved, final version accepted by PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.054504
The sign problem is a notorious problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo simulations of a system with the partition function whose integrand is not real positive. The basic idea of the factorization method applied on such a system is to control some observables in order to determine and sample efficiently the region of configuration space which gives important contribution to the partition function. We argue that it is crucial to choose appropriately the set of the observables to be controlled in order for the method to work successfully in a general system. This is demonstrated by an explicit example, in which it turns out to be necessary to control more than one observables. Extrapolation to large system size is possible due to the nice scaling properties of the factorized functions, and known results obtained by an analytic method are shown to be consistently reproduced.
Anagnostopoulos Konstantinos N.
Azuma Takehiro
Nishimura Jun
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