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Methods of canonical and multicanonical sempling of phase space of vector models


Shapovalova K.V., Kapitan V.Yu, Makarov A.G, Shevchenko Yu.A., Nefedev K.V.

2017, issue 1, P. 124-130


Abstract
Methods for numerical calculations of the thermodynamic properties of vector models were presented in the paper. The most popular because of the speed and simplicity of the implementation of canonical sampling is the Metropolis algorithm. Methods of multi-canonical simulation: parallel tempering, also known as replica exchange MC and the Wang-Landau method allow to overcome the shortcomings of the method of canonical modeling.

Keywords: Metropolis algorithm, Wang-Landau method, parallel tempering

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