C Dress and W Krauth 1995 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 28 L597 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/28/23/001
C Dress and W Krauth
Show affiliationsIn this paper, we present a cluster algorithm for the simulation of hard spheres and related systems. In this algorithm, a copy of the configuration is rotated with respect to a randomly chosen pivot point. The two systems are then superposed, and clusters of overlapping spheres in the joint system are isolated. Each of these clusters can be `flipped` independently, a process which generates non-local moves in the original configuration. A generalization of this algorithm (which works perfectly well at small density) can be made to work successfully at densities around the solid-liquid transition point in the two-dimensional hard-sphere system.
05.70.Jk Critical point phenomena
62H30 Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (See also 68T10)
82B26 Phase transitions (general)
82B80 Numerical methods (Monte Carlo, series resummation, etc.) (See also 65-XX, 81T80)
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C Dress and W Krauth 1995 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 28 L597
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