Wang-Landau/Multibondic Cluster Simulations for Second-Order Phase Transitions

Bernd A. Berg, Wolfhard Janke

Published 2006-10-23, updated 2006-12-11Version 2

For a second-order phase transition the critical energy range of interest is larger than the energy range covered by a canonical Monte Carlo simulation at the critical temperature. Such an extended energy range can be covered by performing a Wang-Landau recursion for the spectral density followed by a multicanonical simulation with fixed weights. But in the conventional approach one loses the advantage due to cluster algorithms. A cluster version of the Wang-Landau recursion together with a subsequent multibondic simulation improves for 2D and 3D Ising models the efficiency of the conventional Wang-Landau/multicanonical approach by power laws in the lattice size. In our simulations real gains in CPU time reach two orders of magnitude.