Tethered Monte Carlo: computing the effective potential without critical slowing down

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.07.009zbMATH Open1192.82035arXiv0806.0543OpenAlexW2062375451MaRDI QIDQ985804FDOQ985804

Victor Martín-Mayor, D. Yllanes, Luis Antonio Fernández

Publication date: 6 August 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present Tethered Monte Carlo, a simple, general purpose method of computing the effective potential of the order parameter (Helmholtz free energy). This formalism is based on a new statistical ensemble, closely related to the micromagnetic one, but with an extended configuration space (through Creutz-like demons). Canonical averages for arbitrary values of the external magnetic field are computed without additional simulations. The method is put to work in the two dimensional Ising model, where the existence of exact results enables us to perform high precision checks. A rather peculiar feature of our implementation, which employs a local Metropolis algorithm, is the total absence, within errors, of critical slowing down for magnetic observables. Indeed, high accuracy results are presented for lattices as large as L=1024.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0543

zbMATH Keywords

Monte CarloIsing modelphase transitionscritical phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

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