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In the context of Monte Carlo sampling for lattice models, the complexity of the energy landscape often leads to Markov chains being trapped in local optima, thereby increasing the correlation between samples and reducing sampling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-29 Jiewei Ding , Jiahao Su , Ho-Kin Tang , Wing Chi Yu

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

By mixing the target posterior distribution with a surrogate distribution, of which the normalizing constant is tractable, we propose a method for estimating the marginal likelihood using the Wang-Landau algorithm. We show that a faster…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-17 Chenguang Dai , Jun S. Liu

The one-parametric Wang-Landau (WL) method is implemented together with an extrapolation scheme to yield approximations of the two-dimensional (exchange-energy, field-energy) density of states (DOS) of the 3D bimodal random-field Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. G. Fytas , A. Malakis

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

The influence of random site dilution on the critical properties of the two-dimensional Ising model on a square lattice was explored by Monte Carlo simulations with the Wang-Landau sampling. The lattice linear size was $L = 20-120$ and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-02 I. A. Hadjiagapiou , A. Malakis , S. S. Martinos

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

Phase transitions are ubiquitous phenomena, exemplified by the melting of ice and spontaneous magnetization of magnetic material. In general, a phase transition is associated with a symmetry breaking of a system; occurs due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-25 Tasrief Surungan , Yukihiro Komura , Yutaka Okabe

We present a formalism to describe slowly decaying systems in the context of finite Markov chains obeying detailed balance. We show that phase space can be partitioned into approximately decoupled regions, in which one may introduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hernan Larralde , Francois Leyvraz , David P. Sanders

Using a recently developed extension of the time-dependent variational principle for matrix product states, we evaluate the dynamics of 2D power-law interacting XXZ models, implementable in a variety of state-of-the-art experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Sean R. Muleady , Mingru Yang , Steven R. White , Ana Maria Rey

We present a formalism of the transition matrix Monte Carlo method. A stochastic matrix in the space of energy can be estimated from Monte Carlo simulation. This matrix is used to compute the density of states, as well as to construct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 Jian-Sheng Wang , Robert H. Swendsen

We apply the Wang-Landau method to the study of the critical behaviour of the three dimensional Random Field Ising Model with a bimodal probability distribution. Our results show that for high values of the random field intensity the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Hernandez , Horacio Ceva

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

The rapid growth of entanglement under unitary time evolution is the primary bottleneck for modern tensor-network techniques--such as Matrix Product States (MPS)--when computing time-dependent expectation values. This {entanglement barrier}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Stefano Carignano , Guglielmo Lami , Jacopo De Nardis , Luca Tagliacozzo

The density of states (DOS) is a spectral property of materials, which provides fundamental insights on various characteristics of materials. In this paper, we propose a model to predict the DOS by reflecting the nature of DOS: DOS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Namkyeong Lee , Heewoong Noh , Sungwon Kim , Dongmin Hyun , Gyoung S. Na , Chanyoung Park

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

A real space diagrammatic method, which is an extension of the Berezinskii technique to problems with periodic boundary condition, is formulated to study the density of states (DOS) \rho(\epsilon,\phi) and its moments for a one-channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Feldmann , E. P. Nakhmedov , R. Oppermann

We propose a discrete transition-based reweighting analysis method (dTRAM) for analyzing configuration-space-discretized simulation trajectories produced at different thermodynamic states (temperatures, Hamiltonians, etc.) dTRAM provides…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-23 Hao Wu , Antonia S. J. S. Mey , Edina Rosta , Frank Noé

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

We discuss the recent application to strongly disordered systems of the Critical Minimum Energy Subspace (CMES) method, used to limit the energy subspace of the Wang-Landau sampling. We compare with our results on the 3D Random Field Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-04 Laura Hernandez , Horacio Ceva
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