Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2004-10-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table,(gzipped tar file)
Scientific paper
In a recent work, M. Troyer, F. Alet and S. Wessel \cite{brazilean} proposed a way to extend histogram methods to quantum systems in the World Line Quantum Monte Carlo (WLQMC) formulation. The strategy, also proposed in \cite{josedaniel}, allows to compute quantum averages on a narrow temperature range from a single Monte Carlo run at fixed temperature. This is achieved by fixing $N$, the number of temporal divisions in the Trotter-Suzuki expansion of WLQMC, and by changing $\epsilon$$=$$1/(N \kb T)$. In this work we apply this strategy to construct a single histogram Monte Carlo method for a canonical ensemble of one-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillators and we explore its accuracy limits. We obtain that fixing $N$ imposses a limit of minimal temperature to the properly performance of the method, which is $T_{min}$$=$$1.9(2)N^{-0.80(6)}$ in our example. This limit is a consequence of the fact that the Trotter-Suzuki expansion fails for large $\epsilon$ values, and, therefore, should be taken into account in all applications of this histogram method for quantum systems.
Munoz Diego J.
Oquendo W. F.
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