Performance limitations of flat-histogram methods

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Dayal, P ^a   Trebst, S ^a   Wessel, S ^a   Wurtz D ^a   Troyer, M ^a   Sabhapandit, S ^b   Coppersmith, S N ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY;

CANONICAL SAMPLING; INVERSE TEMPERATURE; ISING MODELS; POLYNOMIAL SCALING;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 2442532618     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.097201     Document Type: Article

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