Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Reweighting and Dynamics

Jian-Sheng Wang; Tien Kiat Tay; Robert H. Swendsen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.476

Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Reweighting and Dynamics

Jian-Sheng Wang, Tien Kiat Tay, and Robert H. Swendsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 476 – Published 18 January 1999

Abstract

We study an induced dynamics in the space of energy of single-spin-flip Monte Carlo algorithm. The method gives an efficient reweighting technique. This dynamics is shown to have relaxation times proportional to the specific heat. From this we argue for a logarithmic factor in the correlation time of the standard 2D Ising local dynamics.

Received 18 September 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.476

Authors & Affiliations

Jian-Sheng Wang¹, Tien Kiat Tay¹, and Robert H. Swendsen²

¹Department of Computational Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
²Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213