A parallel implementation of the Wang-Landau algorithm

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2008.04.002MaRDI QIDQ711142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lixin Zhan

Publication date 25 October 2010

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2008.04.002

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlodistributed computingWang-Landau

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Parallel algorithms in computer science (68W10)

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