Optimal energy estimation in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 5821-5839

  Janke, Wolfhard ^a,b   Sauer, Tilman ^b,c,d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0347167625     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474309     Document Type: Article

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44. e sweep. Here we have rescaled the measured autocorrelation times to units of sweeps.
45. e to be obtain the data points in the figures.
46. This is, in fact, what we expect on general theoretical grounds.
47. For the Metropolis algorithm the autocorrelation times of the two estimators differ so much for L≥128 that it makes no sense to compute the combined estimator.