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Efficiency of rejection-free dynamic Monte Carlo methods for homogeneous spin models, hard disk systems, and hard
Hiroshi Watanabe1, Satoshi Yukawa, M A Novotny
1Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furouchou, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. hwatanabe@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
We construct asymptotic arguments for the relative efficiency of rejection-free Monte Carlo (MC) methods compared to the standard MC method. We find that the efficiency is proportional to exp(constbeta) in the Ising, sqrt[beta] in the classical XY, and beta in the classical Heisenberg spin systems with inverse temperature beta, regardless of the dimension. The efficiency in hard particle systems is also obtained, and found to be proportional to (rho(cp)-rho)(-d) with the closest packing density rho(cp), density rho, and dimension d of the systems. We construct and implement a rejection-free Monte Carlo method for the hard-disk system. The RFMC has a greater computational efficiency at high densities, and the density dependence of the efficiency is as predicted by our arguments.
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