The use of optimized Monte Carlo methods for studying spin glasses

被引:15
作者
Marinari, E
Parisi, G
Ricci-Tersenghi, F
Zuliani, F
机构
[1] Univ Rome La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[2] Univ Rome La Sapienza, INFM, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[3] Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Condensed Matter Grp, I-34100 Trieste, Italy
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL | 2001年 / 34卷 / 03期
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10.1088/0305-4470/34/3/305
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We start from recently published numerical data by Hatano and Gubernatis to discuss properties of convergence to equilibrium of optimized Monte Carlo methods (bivariate multi-canonical and parallel tempering). We show that these data are not thermalized, and they lead to an erroneous physical picture. We shed some light on why the bivariate multi-canonical Monte Carlo method can fail.
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页码:383 / 390
页数:8
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