Efficiency of Parallel Tempering for Ising Systems
The efficiency of parallel tempering Monte Carlo is studied for a two-dimensional Ising system of length L with N=L^2 spins. An external field is used to introduce a difference in free energy between the two low temperature states. It is found that the number of replicas R_opt that optimizes the pa...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/496 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1605&context=theses |