Replica Monte Carlo Simulation (Revisited)

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2004-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407273v1

Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl, vol 157, 317 (2005).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

For "Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems and Its Applications", 12-15 July 2004, Shonan Village Center, Hayama, Japan, 7

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTPS.157.317

In 1986, Swendsen and Wang proposed a replica Monte Carlo algorithm for spin glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 57 (1986) 2607]. Two important ingredients are present, (1) the use of a collection of systems (replicas) at different of temperatures, but with the same random couplings, (2) defining and flipping clusters. Exchange of information between the systems is facilitated by fixing the tau spin (tau=sigma^1\sigma^2) and flipping the two neighboring systems simultaneously. In this talk, we discuss this algorithm and its relationship to replica exchange (also known as parallel tempering) and Houdayer's cluster algorithm for spin glasses. We review some of the early results obtained using this algorithm. We also present new results for the correlation times of replica Monte Carlo dynamics in two and three dimensions and compare them with replica exchange.

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