Improving Wang-Landau sampling with adaptive windows

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Cunha Netto, A G ^a,b   Caparica, A A ^a   Tsai, Shan Ho ^c   Dickman, Ronald ^b   Landau, D P ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS;

ADAPTIVE WINDOWS; BORDER EFFECTS; BOUNDARY EFFECTS; BOUNDARY POSITIONS; DENSITY OF STATES; ENERGY RANGES; ENERGY VALUES; FIXED ENERGIES; LARGE SYSTEMS; LATTICE POLYMERS; MODIFICATION FACTORS; POTTS MODELS; SYSTEM SIZES; THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS;

WINDOWS;

EID: 56149094958     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.055701     Document Type: Article

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