A single-walker approach for studying quasi-nonergodic systems
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Rimas, Z
Taraskin, SN
Abstract
The jump-walking Monte-Carlo algorithm is revisited and updated to study the equilibrium properties of systems exhibiting quasi-nonergodicity. It is designed for a single processing thread as opposed to currently predominant algorithms for large parallel processing systems. The updated algorithm is tested on the Ising model and applied to the lattice-gas model for sorption in aerogel at low temperatures, when dynamics of the system is critically slowed down. It is demonstrated that the updated jump-walking simulations are able to produce equilibrium isotherms which are typically hidden by the hysteresis effect characteristic of the standard single-flip simulations.
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computational science, phase transitions and critical phenomena, statistical physics
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Scientific Reports
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2045-2322
2045-2322
2045-2322
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7
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Nature Publishing Group
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The work has been supported by a grant from EPSRC.