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A simple solid-on-solid model of adsorbate-induced faceting is studied by using a modified Wang-Landau method. The phase diagram for this system is constructed by computing the density of states in a special two-dimensional energy space. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Czeslaw Oleksy

Evaporation/condensation transition of the Potts model on square lattice is numerically investigated by the Wang-Landau sampling method. Intrinsically system size dependent discrete transition between supersaturation state and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-13 Tomoaki Nogawa , Nobuyasu Ito , Hiroshi Watanabe

Temperature Accelerated Sliced Sampling (TASS) is an efficient method to compute high dimensional free energy landscapes. The original TASS method employs the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method (WHAM) which is an iterative post-processing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Asit Pal , Subhendu Pal , Shivani Verma , Motoyuki Shiga , Nisanth N. Nair

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

Monte Carlo algorithms such as the Wang-Landau algorithm and similar `entropic' methods are able to accurately sample the density of states of model systems and thereby give access to thermal equilibrium properties at any temperature.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-28 Daniele Barettin , Paolo Sibani

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

Soft porous crystals are flexible metal-organic frameworks that respond to physical stimuli such as temperature, pressure, and gas adsorption by large changes in their structure and unit cell volume. While they have attracted a lot of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-19 David Bousquet , François-Xavier Coudert , Anne Boutin

In this work we propose a criterion to finish the simulations of the Wang-Landau sampling. Instead of determining a final modification factor for all simulations and every sample sizes, we investigate the behavior of the temperature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-09 Álvaro de Almeida Caparica

We study the interface tension of the 4-state Potts model in three dimensions using the Wang- Landau algorithm. The interface tension is given by the ratio of the partition function with a twisted boundary condition in one direction and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-22 A. Hietanen , B. Lucini

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

Performance of Wang-Landau (W-L) algorithm in two continuous spin models is tested by determining the fluctuations in energy histogram. Finite size scaling is performed on a modified XY-model using different W-L sampling schemes.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-20 Suman Sinha , Soumen Kumar Roy

Enhanced sampling techniques have become an essential tool in computational chemistry and physics, where they are applied to sample activated processes that occur on a time scale that is inaccessible to conventional simulations. Despite…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 F. Giberti , G. A. Tribello , M. Ceriotti

We investigate a generic, parallel replica-exchange framework for Monte Carlo simulations based on the Wang-Landau method. To demonstrate its advantages and general applicability for massively parallel simulations of complex systems, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Thomas Vogel , Ying Wai Li , Thomas Wüst , David P. Landau

We present a method for estimating the density of states of a classical statistical model. The algorithm successfully combines the Wang-Landau flat histogram method with the N-fold way in order to improve efficiency of the original single…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. J. Schulz , K. Binder , M. Mueller

We revisit the nature of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising model on the basis of Wang-Landau simulation. We introduce the density of states in the two-dimensional energy space corresponding to the intra- and inter-chain directions. We then…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Takayuki Tanabe , Kouichi Okunishi

We review the methodology for measurements of two point functions of the cosmological observables, both power spectra and correlation functions. For pseudo-$C_\ell$ estimators, we will argue that the window weighted overdensity field can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-27 Sukhdeep Singh

We presented an efficient algorithm, fast adaptive flat-histogram ensemble (FAFE), to estimate the density of states (DOS) and to enhance sampling in large systems. FAFE calculates the means of an arbitrary extensive variable $U$ in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-13 Xin Zhou , Yi Jiang

We propose an extension of umbrella sampling in which the pertinent range of states is subdivided in windows that are sampled consecutively and linked together. Extrapolating results from one window we estimate a weight function for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Virnau , M. Mueller

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 work, we present a comparative study of the accuracy provided by the Wang-Landau sampling and the Broad Histogram method to estimate de density of states of the two dimensional Ising ferromagnet. The microcanonical averages used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-26 Alexandre Pereira Lima , Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira , Daniel Girardi