Robust parameter selection for parallel tempering

DOI10.1142/S0129183110015361MaRDI QIDQ4929588zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Firas Hamze, Neil G. Dickson, Kamran Karimi

Publication date 23 September 2010

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics C (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2840

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationparallel temperingquantum Monte Carlo

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: This paper describes an algorithm for selecting parameter values (e.g. temperature values) at which to measure equilibrium properties with Parallel Tempering Monte Carlo simulation. Simple approaches to choosing parameter values can lead to poor equilibration of the simulation, especially for Ising spin systems that undergo $1^{s}t$-order phase transitions. However, starting from an initial set of parameter values, the careful, iterative respacing of these values based on results with the previous set of values greatly improves equilibration. Example spin systems presented here appear in the context of Quantum Monte Carlo.

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• Relationship between d-dimensional quantal spin systems and (d+1)-dimensional Ising systems. Equivalence, critical exponents and systematic approximants of the partition function and spin correlations.

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