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We considered a higher-dimensional extension for the replica-exchange Wang-Landau algorithm to perform a random walk in the energy and magnetization space of the two-dimensional Ising model. This hybrid scheme combines the advantages of…

In this paper, we demonstrate the efficiency of simulations via direct computation of the partition function under various macroscopic conditions, such as different temperatures or volumes. The method can compute partition functions by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Cheng Zhang , Jianpeng Ma

We present a generalization of the classical Wang-Landau algorithm [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2050 (2001)] to quantum systems. The algorithm proceeds by stochastically evaluating the coefficients of a high temperature series expansion or a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 Matthias Troyer , Stefan Wessel , Fabien Alet

The density of states of continuous models is known to span many orders of magnitudes at different energies due to the small volume of phase space near the ground state. Consequently, the traditional Wang-Landau sampling which uses the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-20 Yang Wei Koh , Hwee Kuan Lee , Yutaka Okabe

Monte Carlo simulations using Wang-Landau sampling are performed to study three-dimensional chains of homopolymers on a lattice. We confirm the accuracy of the method by calculating the thermodynamic properties of this system. Our results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. G. Cunha Netto , C. J. Silva , A. A. Caparica , R. Dickman

It has been shown that the Metropolis algorithm can be implemented on quantum computers in a way that avoids the sign problem. However, flat histogram techniques are often preferred as they don't suffer from the same limitations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Garrett T. Floyd , David P. Landau , Michael R. Geller

We analyze the efficiency of the Wang-Landau algorithm to sample a multimodal distribution on a prototypical simple test case. We show that the exit time from a metastable state is much smaller for the Wang Landau dynamics than for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 G. Fort , B. Jourdain , E. Kuhn , T Lelièvre , G. Stoltz

In this work we investigate the behavior of the microcanonical and canonical averages of the two-dimensional Ising model during the Wang-Landau simulation. The simulations were carried out using conventional Wang-Landau sampling and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-09 Alvaro de Almeida Caparica , Antonio Gonçalves da Cunha Netto

The three-dimensional bimodal random-field Ising model is studied via a new finite temperature numerical approach. The methods of Wang-Landau sampling and broad histogram are implemented in a unified algorithm by using the N-fold version of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-01 Nikolaos G. Fytas , Anastasios Malakis

As far as we know, there is no flat-histogram algorithm to sample the stationary distribution of non-equilibrium stochastic processes. The present work addresses this gap by introducing a generalization of the Wang-Landau algorithm, applied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 L. M. C. Alencar , T. F. A. Alves , G. A. Alves , F. W. S. Lima , A. Macedo-Filho , R. S. Ferreira

We investigate the behavior of the deviation of the estimator for the density of states (DOS) with respect to the exact solution in the course of Wang-Landau and Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo (SAMC) simulations of the two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Simon Schneider , Marco Mueller , Wolfhard Janke

For a second-order phase transition the critical energy range of interest is larger than the energy range covered by a canonical Monte Carlo simulation at the critical temperature. Such an extended energy range can be covered by performing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernd A. Berg , Wolfhard Janke

Metropolis algorithm has been extensively employed for simulating a canonical ensemble and estimating macroscopic properties of a closed system at any desired temperature. A mechanical property, like energy can be calculated by averaging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-28 K. P. N. Murthy

We provide analysis of the convergence properties and applicability extensions of flat-histogram algorithms, with a particular focus on the Wang-Landau algorithms (exemplified by converging stochastic approximation Monte Carlo (SAMC)) and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Timur Shakirov

We introduce a generic, parallel Wang-Landau method that is naturally suited to implementation on massively parallel, petaflop supercomputers. The approach introduces a replica-exchange framework in which densities of states for overlapping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ying Wai Li , Thomas Vogel , Thomas Wüst , David P. Landau

Monte-Carlo simulations are routinely used for estimating the scaling exponents of complex systems. However, due to finite-size effects, determining the exponent values is often difficult and not reliable. Here we present a novel technique…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Jaan Kalda

We implement the Wang-Landau algorithm in the context of SU(N) lattice gauge theories. We study the quenched, reduced version of the lattice theory and calculate its density of states for N=20,30,40,50. We introduce a variant of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Barak Bringoltz , Stephen R. Sharpe

Monte Carlo simulation using the Wang-Landau algorithm has been performed in an one-dimensional Lebwohl-Lasher model. Both one-dimensional and two-dimensional random walks have been carried out. The results are compared with the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kisor Mukhopadhyay , Nababrata Ghoshal , Soumen Kumar Roy

In Wang-Landau type algorithms, Monte-Carlo updates are performed with respect to the density of states, which is iteratively refined during simulations. The partition function and thermodynamic observables are then obtained by standard…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-29 Kurt Langfeld , Biagio Lucini , Roberto Pellegrini , Antonio Rago

Flat histogram methods, such as Wang--Landau sampling, provide a means for high-throughput calculation of phase diagrams of atomistic/lattice model systems. Many parallelisation schemes with varying degrees of complexity have been proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Hubert J. Naguszewski , Christopher D. Woodgate , David Quigley