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Optimum Monte Carlo simulations: some exact results

J Talbot1, G Tarjus2 and P Viot2

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We obtain exact results for the acceptance ratio and mean squared displacement in Monte Carlo simulations of the simple harmonic oscillator in D dimensions. When the trial displacement is made uniformly in the radius, we demonstrate that the results are independent of the dimensionality of the space. We also study the dynamics of the process via a spectral analysis and obtain an accurate description for the relaxation time.


PACS

05.10.Ln Monte Carlo methods

05.70.-a Thermodynamics

MSC

82C80 Numerical methods (Monte Carlo, series resummation, etc.)

Subjects

Computational physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 34 (29 August 2003)

Received 7 February 2003, in final form 9 July 2003

Published 12 August 2003



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