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Estimating partition function using Montecarlo methods

Physics Asked by Angelo Brillante Romeo on December 21, 2020

While working on a completely unrelated quantum computing problem, I ran into a quantity that can be mapped to a partition function of spins on a triangular lattice. It is not quite an Ising model, though, since interaction happens between triplets of spins, some configurations are not allowed, and I don’t explicitly have the Hamiltonian but only the weight of every configuration (I guess one could just pick a random value for the temperature and define a Hamiltonian, but it would probably just be a more complicated mess).

I have been trying to understand if I can use Montecarlo methods to get the partition function, but I am getting lost in the literature. From what I understood, my best shot would be to use something like the Wang-Landau algorithm to estimate the density of states and use that to get the partition function, but I couldn’t find any paper detailing such a procedure so if someone could give me some good literature to look at (or any suggestions) that would be very helpful.

Thanks!

P.S. As far as I understand, Wang-Landau gives the density of states up to a normalization constant. However, in my specific case I have some conditions on this fictitious "partition function" that should allow me to infer that constant.

One Answer

The Ising model is fairly well studied, a good start might be this paper. Many numerical methods exist as well, which may be used, starting with metropolis-hastings and cluster algorithms like the Wolff/Swendsen-Wang algorithm. Frustrated systems and transverse field systems can be efficiently sampled using QMC algorithms like Determinant quantum MC (DQMC) and Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE).

Also, as far as I can remember the 2D triangular lattice is exactly solvable assuming there is no transverse field. I believe in that case you are looking for a solution using transfer matrix method.

Answered by Danny Kong on December 21, 2020

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