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Wang-Landau algorithm for continuous models and joint density of states

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present modified Wang-Landau algorithm for models with continuous degrees of freedom. We demonstrate this algorithm with the calculation of the joint density of states g(M,E)g(M,E) of ferromagnet Heisenberg models. The joint density of states contains more information than the density of states of a single variable--energy, but is also much more time-consuming to calculate. We discuss the strategies to perform this calculation efficiently for models with several thousand degrees of freedom, much larger than other continuous models studied previously with the Wang-Landau algorithm.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509335,
  title  = {Wang-Landau algorithm for continuous models and joint density of states},
  author = {Chenggang Zhou and T. C. Schulthess and Stefan Torbrügge and D. P. Landau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509335},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages 4 figures

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