Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2005-04-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
20 pages; to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056710
We present a Monte Carlo method that efficiently computes the density of states for spin models having any number of interaction per spin. By combining a random-walk in the energy space with collective updates controlled by the microcanonical temperature, our method yields dynamic exponents close to their ideal random-walk values, reduced equilibrium times, and very low statistical error on the density of states. The method can host any density of states estimation scheme, including the Wang-Landau algorithm and the transition matrix method. Our approach proves remarkably powerful in the numerical study of models governed by long-range interactions, where it is shown to reduce the algorithm complexity to that of a short-range model with the same number of spins. We apply the method to the $q$-state Potts chains $(3\leq q \leq 12)$ with power-law decaying interactions in their first-order regime; we find that conventional local-update algorithms are outperformed already for sizes above a few hundred spins. By considering chains containing up to $2^{16}$ spins, which we simulated in fairly reasonable time, we obtain estimates of transition temperatures correct to five-figure accuracy. Finally, we propose several efficient schemes aimed at estimating the microcanonical temperature.
Diep Hung-The
Reynal Sylvain
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