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We present a study on the performance of Wang-Landau algorithm in a lattice model of liquid crystals which is a continuous lattice spin model. We propose a novel method of the spin update scheme in a continuous lattice spin model. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-27 Suman Sinha

The development of new algorithms for simulations in physics is as important as the development of new analytical methods. In this paper, we present a comparison of the recently developed microcanonical population annealing (MCPA) algorithm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-21 Vyacheslav Mozolenko , Marina Fadeeva , Lev Shchur

We propose a strategy to achieve the fastest convergence in the Wang-Landau algorithm with varying modification factors. With this strategy, the convergence of a simulation is at least as good as the conventional Monte Carlo algorithm, i.e.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-24 Chenggang Zhou , Jia Su

Dominant energy subspaces of statistical systems are defined with the help of restrictive conditions on various characteristics of the energy distribution, such as the probability density and the forth order Binder's cumulant. Our analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Malakis , S. S. Martinos , I. A. Hadjiagapiou , N. G. Fytas , P. Kalozoumis

We develop an approach to apply Wang-Landau algorithm to multicomponent alloys in semi-grand-canonical ensemble. Although the Wang-Landau algorithm has great advantages over conventional sampling methods, there are few applications to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-18 Kazuhito Takeuchi , Ryohei Tanaka , Koretaka Yuge

We implement a Wang-Landau sampling technique in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for the purpose of calculating the Renyi entanglement entropies and associated mutual information. The algorithm converges an estimate for an analogue to the density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-23 Stephen Inglis , Roger G. Melko

The output distribution of a neural network (NN) over the entire input space captures the complete input-output mapping relationship, offering insights toward a more comprehensive NN understanding. Exhaustive enumeration or traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Weitang Liu , Ying-Wai Li , Yi-Zhuang You , Jingbo Shang

We implement a two-stage approach of the Wang-Landau algorithm to investigate the critical properties of the 3D Ising model with quenched bond randomness. In particular, we consider the case where disorder couples to the nearest-neighbor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-03 P. E. Theodorakis , N. G. Fytas

Critical properties of lattice gases with nearest-neighbor exclusion are investigated via the adaptive-window Wang-Landau algorithm on the square and simple cubic lattices, for which the model is known to exhibit an Ising-like phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. G. Cunha-Netto , Ronald Dickman

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

We propose a new Monte Carlo algorithm for the free energy calculation based on configuration space sampling. We implement this algorithm for Ising model. Comparison with the exact free energy shows an excellent agreement. We analyse the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 Sheng Bi , Ning-Hua Tong

We introduce two methods for estimating the density matrix for a quantum system: Quantum Maximum Likelihood and Quantum Variational Inference. In these methods, we construct a variational family to model the density matrix of a mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 Kyle Cranmer , Siavash Golkar , Duccio Pappadopulo

We present a mathematical analysis of the Wang-Landau algorithm, prove its convergence, identify sources of errors and strategies for optimization. In particular, we found the histogram increases uniformly with small fluctuation after a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Chenggang Zhou , R. N. Bhatt

A macroscopically constrained Wang-Landau Monte Carlo method was recently proposed to calculate the joint density of states (DOS) for systems with multiple order parameters. Here we demonstrate results for a nearest-neighbor Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-05 Chor-Hoi Chan , Gregory Brown , Per Arne Rikvold

A simple modification of the ``Wang-Landau sampling'' algorithm removes the systematic error that occurs at the boundary of the range of energy over which the random walk takes place in the original algorithm.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. J. Schulz , K. Binder , M. Müller , D. P. Landau

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

Power system state estimation is heavily subjected to measurement error, which comes from the noise of measuring instruments, communication noise, and some unclear randomness. Traditional weighted least square (WLS), as the most universal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Haosen Yang , Robert C. Qiu , Lei Chu , Tiebin Mi , Xin Shi , Chaoyuan Mary Liu

We present a novel computational framework for density control in high-dimensional state spaces. The considered dynamical system consists of a large number of indistinguishable agents whose behaviors can be collectively modeled as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Shaojun Ma , Mengxue Hou , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

Numerical aspects are investigated in ultra-large-scale electronic structure calculation. Accuracy control methods in process (molecular-dynamics) calculation are focused. Flexible control methods are proposed so as to control variational…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 Takeo Hoshi

We present a history-dependent Monte Carlo scheme for the efficient calculation of the free-energy of quantum systems, inspired by the Wang-Landau sampling and metadynamics method. When embedded in a path integral formulation, it is of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-08 Yanier Crespo , Alessandro Laio , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Erio Tosatti