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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.

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@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

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