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Multicanonical Recursions
The problem of calculating multicanonical parameters recursively is
discussed. I describe in detail a computational implementation which has worked
reasonably well in practice.Comment: 23 pages, latex, 4 postscript figures included (uuencoded
Z-compressed .tar file created by uufiles), figure file corrected
On the Wang-Landau Method for Off-Lattice Simulations in the "Uniform" Ensemble
We present a rigorous derivation for off-lattice implementations of the
so-called "random-walk" algorithm recently introduced by Wang and Landau [PRL
86, 2050 (2001)]. Originally developed for discrete systems, the algorithm
samples configurations according to their inverse density of states using
Monte-Carlo moves; the estimate for the density of states is refined at each
simulation step and is ultimately used to calculate thermodynamic properties.
We present an implementation for atomic systems based on a rigorous separation
of kinetic and configurational contributions to the density of states. By
constructing a "uniform" ensemble for configurational degrees of freedom--in
which all potential energies, volumes, and numbers of particles are equally
probable--we establish a framework for the correct implementation of simulation
acceptance criteria and calculation of thermodynamic averages in the continuum
case. To demonstrate the generality of our approach, we perform sample
calculations for the Lennard-Jones fluid using two implementation variants and
in both cases find good agreement with established literature values for the
vapor-liquid coexistence locus.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figure
Monte Carlo simulation and global optimization without parameters
We propose a new ensemble for Monte Carlo simulations, in which each state is
assigned a statistical weight , where is the number of states with
smaller or equal energy. This ensemble has robust ergodicity properties and
gives significant weight to the ground state, making it effective for hard
optimization problems. It can be used to find free energies at all temperatures
and picks up aspects of critical behaviour (if present) without any parameter
tuning. We test it on the travelling salesperson problem, the Edwards-Anderson
spin glass and the triangular antiferromagnet.Comment: 10 pages with 3 Postscript figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Grundstate Properties of the 3D Ising Spin Glass
We study zero--temperature properties of the 3d Edwards--Anderson Ising spin
glass on finite lattices up to size . Using multicanonical sampling we
generate large numbers of groundstate configurations in thermal equilibrium.
Finite size scaling with a zero--temperature scaling exponent describes the data well. Alternatively, a descriptions in terms of Parisi
mean field behaviour is still possible. The two scenarios give significantly
different predictions on lattices of size .Comment: LATEX 9pages,figures upon request ,SCRI-9
Long spin relaxation times in wafer scale epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001)
We developed an easy, upscalable process to prepare lateral spin-valve
devices on epitaxially grown monolayer graphene on SiC(0001) and perform
nonlocal spin transport measurements. We observe the longest spin relaxation
times tau_S in monolayer graphene, while the spin diffusion coefficient D_S is
strongly reduced compared to typical results on exfoliated graphene. The
increase of tau_S is probably related to the changed substrate, while the cause
for the small value of D_S remains an open question.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Parallelization of Markov chain generation and its application to the multicanonical method
We develop a simple algorithm to parallelize generation processes of Markov
chains. In this algorithm, multiple Markov chains are generated in parallel and
jointed together to make a longer Markov chain. The joints between the
constituent Markov chains are processed using the detailed balance. We apply
the parallelization algorithm to multicanonical calculations of the
two-dimensional Ising model and demonstrate accurate estimation of
multicanonical weights.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, uses elsart.cl
Stacking Entropy of Hard Sphere Crystals
Classical hard spheres crystallize at equilibrium at high enough density.
Crystals made up of stackings of 2-dimensional hexagonal close-packed layers
(e.g. fcc, hcp, etc.) differ in entropy by only about per sphere
(all configurations are degenerate in energy). To readily resolve and study
these small entropy differences, we have implemented two different
multicanonical Monte Carlo algorithms that allow direct equilibration between
crystals with different stacking sequences. Recent work had demonstrated that
the fcc stacking has higher entropy than the hcp stacking. We have studied
other stackings to demonstrate that the fcc stacking does indeed have the
highest entropy of ALL possible stackings. The entropic interactions we could
detect involve three, four and (although with less statistical certainty) five
consecutive layers of spheres. These interlayer entropic interactions fall off
in strength with increasing distance, as expected; this fall-off appears to be
much slower near the melting density than at the maximum (close-packing)
density. At maximum density the entropy difference between fcc and hcp
stackings is per sphere, which is roughly 30% higher
than the same quantity measured near the melting transition.Comment: 15 page
A Multicanonical Molecular Dynamics Study on a Simple Bead-Spring Model for Protein Folding
We have performed a multicanonical molecular dynamics simulation on a simple
model protein.We have studied a model protein composed of charged, hydrophobic,
and neutral spherical bead monomers.Since the hydrophobic interaction is
considered to significantly affect protein folding, we particularly focus on
the competition between effects of the Coulomb interaction and the hydrophobic
interaction. We found that the transition which occurs upon decreasing the
temperature is markedly affected by the change in both parameters and forms of
the hydrophobic potential function, and the transition changes from first order
to second order, when the Coulomb interaction becomes weaker.Comment: 7 pages, 6 postscript figures, To appear in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn. Vol.70
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A comparison of extremal optimization with flat-histogram dynamics for finding spin-glass ground states
We compare the performance of extremal optimization (EO), flat-histogram and
equal-hit algorithms for finding spin-glass ground states. The
first-passage-times to a ground state are computed. At optimal parameter of
tau=1.15, EO outperforms other methods for small system sizes, but equal-hit
algorithm is competitive to EO, particularly for large systems. Flat-histogram
and equal-hit algorithms offer additional advantage that they can be used for
equilibrium thermodynamic calculations. We also propose a method to turn EO
into a useful algorithm for equilibrium calculations.
Keywords: extremal optimization. flat-histogram algorithm, equal-hit
algorithm, spin-glass model, ground state.Comment: 10 LaTeX pages, 2 figure
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