The inefficiency of re-weighted sampling and the curse of system size in high order path integration

Details The inefficiency of re-weighted sampling and the curse of system size in high order path integration The inefficiency of re-weighted sampling and the curse of system size in high order path integration

2011-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/1107.1908v1

Proc. R. Soc. A 8 January 2012 vol. 468 no. 2137 2-17

Physics

Chemical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1098/rspa.2011.0413

Computing averages over a target probability density by statistical re-weighting of a set of samples with a different distribution is a strategy which is commonly adopted in fields as diverse as atomistic simulation and finance. Here we present a very general analysis of the accuracy and efficiency of this approach, highlighting some of its weaknesses. We then give an example of how our results can be used, specifically to assess the feasibility of high-order path integral methods. We demonstrate that the most promising of these techniques -- which is based on re-weighted sampling -- is bound to fail as the size of the system is increased, because of the exponential growth of the statistical uncertainty in the re-weighted average.

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