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Anders Irbäck

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Dynamics near a first-order phase transition with the Metropolis and Swendsen-Wang algorithms

Author

  • A. Billoire
  • R. Lacaze
  • A. Morel
  • Sourendu Gupta
  • A. Irbäck
  • B. Petersson

Summary, in English

We have simulated the 10-state 2d Potts model with the Metropolis and Swendsen-Wang algorithms, in order to compare their performances near a first-order phase transition. We show that a simple Markov model relates the frequencies of the flips between coexisting phases and the auto-correlation times. It leads to a coherent description of the dynamics. The ratio of the algorithm efficiencies has little temperature dependence. A slight increase of the cluster algorithm efficiency with volume, as compared to the Metropolis method, is suggested.

Publishing year

1991-07-08

Language

English

Pages

231-248

Publication/Series

Nuclear Physics, Section B

Volume

358

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Other Physics Topics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0550-3213