The inefficiency of re-weighted sampling and the curse of system size in high-order path integration

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2137, 2012, Pages 2-17

  Ceriotti, Michele ^a   Brain, Guy A R ^a   Riordan, Oliver ^b   Manolopoulos, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Mathematical Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High order path integrals; Re weighting; Statistical sampling

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; HIGH-ORDER; IN-FIELD; PATH INTEGRAL; PATH INTEGRAL METHOD; PATH INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RE-WEIGHTING; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEM SIZE;

SAMPLING;

EID: 84855997936     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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