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Takahiro Nemoto1, Esteban Guevara Hidalgo1,2, Vivien Lecomte1
1Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 7599 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, 75013 Paris, France.
Abstract:
The Giardinà-Kurchan-Peliti algorithm is a numerical procedure that uses population dynamics in order to calculate large deviation functions associated to the distribution of time-averaged observables. To study the numerical errors of this algorithm, we explicitly devise a stochastic birth-death process that describes the time evolution of the population probability. From this formulation, we derive that systematic errors of the algorithm decrease proportionally to the inverse of the population size. Based on this observation, we propose a simple interpolation technique for the better estimation of large deviation functions. The approach we present is detailed explicitly in a two-state model.
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