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The Metropolis implementation of the Monte Carlo algorithm has been developed to study the equilibrium thermodynamics of many-body systems. Choosing small trial moves, the trajectories obtained applying this algorithm agree with those…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 G. Tiana , L. Sutto , R. A. Broglia

Monte Carlo simulations are widely employed to measure the physical properties of glass-forming liquids in thermal equilibrium. Combined with local Monte Carlo moves, the Metropolis algorithm can also be used to simulate the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-23 Ludovic Berthier , Federico Ghimenti Frédéric van Wijland

Monte Carlo simulations are methods for simulating statistical systems. The aim is to generate a representative ensemble of configurations to access thermodynamical quantities without the need to solve the system analytically or to perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jean-Charles Walter , Gerard Barkema

We propose a new global optimization method ({\em Simulated Tempering}) for simulating effectively a system with a rough free energy landscape (i.e. many coexisting states) at finite non-zero temperature. This method is related to simulated…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-17 Enzo Marinari , Giorgio Parisi

We propose a new generalized-ensemble algorithm, which we refer to as the multibaric-multithermal Monte Carlo method. The multibaric-multithermal Monte Carlo simulations perform random walks widely both in volume space and in potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Okumura , Y. Okamoto

We describe in detail two numerical simulation methods valid to study systems whose thermostatistics is described by generalized entropies, such as Tsallis. The methods are useful for applications to non-trivial interacting systems with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Salazar , R. Toral

We introduce a general Monte Carlo scheme for achieving atomistic simulations with monoelectronic Hamiltonians including the thermalization of both nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom. The kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm is used to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Calvo , F. Spiegelman

Monte Carlo algorithms are frequently used in atomistic simulations, including for computation of magnetic parameter temperature dependences in multiscale simulations. Even though parallelization strategies for Monte Carlo simulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Serban Lepadatu , George McKenzie , Tim Mercer , Callum Robert MacKinnon , Philip Raymond Bissell

A variational approach for the free energy is used to study the three-dimensional anisotropic XY model in the presence of a crystal field. The magnetization and the phase diagrams as a function of the parameters of the Hamiltonian are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. M. Castro , A. S. T. Pires , J. A. Plascak

This discussion serves as an introduction to the use of Monte Carlo simulations as a useful way to evaluate the observables of a ferromagnet. Key background is given about the relevance and effectiveness of this stochastic approach and in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-04 Jacques Kotze

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method capable of sampling the full density matrix of a many-particle system at finite temperature. This allows arbitrary reduced density matrix elements and expectation values of complicated non-local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. S. Blunt , T. W. Rogers , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

A model based on microcanonical Monte Carlo method is used to study the application of the temperature gradient along a two-dimensional (2D) Ising system. We estimate the system size effects on thermal conductivity, $K$, for a nano-scale…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Neek-Amal , R. Moussavi , H. R. Sepangi

We use a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in which a single-cluster update is combined with the over-relaxation and Metropolis spin re-orientation algorithm. Periodic boundary conditions were applied in all directions. We have calculated the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Nho , E. Manousakis

We employ Monte Carlo techniques, utilizing the Metropolis and Wolff algorithms, to investigate phase behavior and phase transitions in anisotropic Ising models. Our study encompasses the thermodynamic properties, evaluating energy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-31 Basit Iqbal , Kingshuk Sarkar

We study the classical XY (plane rotator) model at the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition. We simulate the model using the single cluster algorithm on square lattices of a linear size up to L=2048.We derive the finite size behaviour of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Hasenbusch

Machine learning has become a useful tool for studying phase transitions in statistical systems.For the two-dimensional classical XY model, however, the topological character of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-02 Qingao Fan , Xu Li , Tingting Xue

Recently, Velazquez and Curilef have proposed a methodology to extend Monte Carlo algorithms based on canonical ensemble, which is aimed to overcome slow sampling problems associated with temperature-driven discontinuous phase transitions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-31 L. Velazquez , J. C. Castro-Palacio

We report results for simulations of the four-dimensional XY spin glass using the parallel tempering Monte Carlo method at low temperatures for moderate sizes. Our results are qualitatively consistent with earlier work on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Helmut G. Katzgraber , A. P. Young

We propose a new sampling method, the thermostat-assisted continuously-tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, for Bayesian learning on large datasets and multimodal distributions. It simulates the Nos\'e-Hoover dynamics of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Rui Luo , Jianhong Wang , Yaodong Yang , Zhanxing Zhu , Jun Wang

In order to extend the recently proposed Monte Carlo Hamiltonian to many-body systems, we suggest to concept of a stochastic basis. We apply it to the chain of $N_s=9$ coupled anharmonic oscillators. We compute the spectrum of excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 C. Q. Huang , H. Kröger , X. Q. Luo , K. J. M. Moriarty