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An Explicit Microreversibility Violating Thermodynamic Markov Process

Statistical Mechanics 2008-07-18 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We explicitly construct a non-microreversible transition matrix for a Markov process and apply it to the standard three-state Potts model. This provides a clear and simple demonstration that the usual micoreversibility property of thermodynamical Monte Carlo algorithms is not strictly necessary from a mathemetical point of view.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2704,
  title  = {An Explicit Microreversibility Violating Thermodynamic Markov Process},
  author = {Michael J. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2704},
  year   = {2008}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure

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