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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Journal Club

Date: May 19, 2008
Title: A Monte Carlo Algorithm to Calculate Density of States: Wang-Landau Sampling
Speaker: Rajeev Kapri
Abstract: I will discuss the Wang-Landau Monte Carlo algorithm which estimates the density of states for classical statistical models via a random walk algorithm which produces a flat histogram.
  1. Refs.: F. Wang and D. P. Landau [Phys. Rev. Lett.] [Phys. Rev. E]