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A highly efficient Monte Carlo method for the calculation of the density of states of classical spin systems is presented. As an application, we investigate the density of states Omega_N(E,M) of two- and three-dimensional Ising models with…
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We present a novel algorithm to compute the density of states, which is proven to converge to the correct result. The algorithm is very general and can be applied to a wide range of models, in the frameworks of Statistical Mechanics and…
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A Monte Carlo method to estimate the Joint Density of States g(E,M) of the Ising and Ising-like models is presented. The method is applied to the well-known 2D Ising model, and is shown to be accurate, efficient, and embarrassingly…
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Estimating the density of states of systems with rugged free energy landscapes is a notoriously difficult task of the utmost importance in many areas of physics ranging from spin glasses to biopolymers. Density of states estimation has also…
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We discuss a new strategy for treating the complex action problem of lattice field theories with a $\theta$-term based on density of states (DoS) methods. The key ingredient is to use open boundary conditions where the topological charge is…
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