A study of a local Monte Carlo technique for simulating systems of charged particles

Details A study of a local Monte Carlo technique for simulating systems of charged particles A study of a local Monte Carlo technique for simulating systems of charged particles

2007-06-26

arxiv.org/abs/0706.3858v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

17 pages, 10 figures

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We study some aspects of a Monte Carlo method invented by Maggs and Rossetto for simulating systems of charged particles. It has the feature that the discretized electric field is updated locally when charges move. Results of simulations of the two dimensional one-component plasma are presented. Highly accurate results can be obtained very efficiently using this lattice method over a large temperature range. The method differs from global methods in having additional degrees of freedom which leads to the question of how a faster method can result. We argue that efficient sampling depends on charge mobility and find that the mobility is close to maximum for a low rate of independent plaquette updates for intermediate temperatures. We present a simple model to account for this behavior. We also report on the role of uniform electric field sampling using this method.

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