Heat Bath Efficiency with Metropolis-Type Updating
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-11-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
Abstract
We illustrate for 4D SU(2) and U(1) lattice gauge theory that sampling with a biased Metropolis scheme is essentially equivalent to using the heat bath algorithm. Only, the biased Metropolis method can also be applied when an efficient heat bath algorithm does not exist.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0503006,
title = {Heat Bath Efficiency with Metropolis-Type Updating},
author = {Alexei Bazavov and Bernd A. Berg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0503006},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures. Revisions after referee reports