Speeding up parallel tempering simulations
Statistical Mechanics
2010-11-19 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We discuss methods that allow to increase the step-size in a parallel tempering simulation of statistical models and test them at the example of the three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glass. We find an overall speed-up of about two for contemporary lattices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.4247,
title = {Speeding up parallel tempering simulations},
author = {Martin Hasenbusch and Stefan Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4247},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure, final version, minor changes and references added