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Tempered Fermions in the Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Parallel tempering simulates at many quark masses simultaneously, by changing the mass during the simulation while remaining in equilibrium. The algorithm is faster than pure HMC if more than one mass is needed, and works better the smaller the smallest mass is.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9712012,
  title  = {Tempered Fermions in the Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm},
  author = {G. Boyd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9712012},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, Combined proceedings for Lattice 97, Edinburgh and the International Workshop 'Lattice QCD on Parallel Computers', University of Tsukuba, Japan

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