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Cluster Algorithms for Spin Models on MIMD Parallel Computers
Proceedings of the Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, 1990.
Parallel computers are ideally suited to the Monte Carlo simulation of spin models using the standard Metropolis algorithm, since it is regular and local. However local algorithms have the major drawback that near a phase transition the number of sweeps needed to generate a statistically independent configuration increases as the square of the lattice size. New algorithms have recently been developed which dramatically reduce this 'critical slowing down' by updating clusters of spins at a time.
doi:10.1109/dmcc.1990.555410
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