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An Accelerated Multiboson Algorithm for Coulomb Gases with Dynamical Dielectric Effects

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

A recent reformulation [1] of the problem of Coulomb gases in the presence of a dynamical dielectric medium showed that finite temperature simulations of such systems can be accomplished on the basis of completely local Hamiltonians on a spatial lattice by including additional bosonic fields. For large systems, the Monte Carlo algorithm proposed in Ref. [1] becomes inefficient due to a low acceptance rate for particle moves in a fixed background multiboson field. We show here how this problem can be circumvented by use of a coupled particle-multiboson update procedure that improves acceptance rates on large lattices by orders of magnitude. The method is tested on a one-component plasma with neutral dielectric particles for a variety of system sizes.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0602363,
  title  = {An Accelerated Multiboson Algorithm for Coulomb Gases with Dynamical Dielectric Effects},
  author = {A. Duncan and R. D. Sedgewick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0602363},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, fixed typos, added references

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