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Physics  2015 

Dynamical traps in Wang-Landau sampling of continuous systems: Mechanism and solution

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.023306

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Abstract:

We study the mechanism behind dynamical trappings experienced during Wang-Landau sampling of continuous systems reported by several authors. Trapping is caused by the random walker coming close to a local energy extremum, although the mechanism is different from that of critical slowing down encountered in conventional molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations. When trapped, the random walker misses entire or even several stages of Wang-Landau modification factor reduction, leading to inadequate sampling of configuration space and a rough density-of-states even though the modification factor has been reduced to very small values. Trapping is dependent on specific systems, the choice of energy bins, and Monte Carlo step size, making it highly unpredictable. A general, simple, and effective solution is proposed where the configurations of multiple parallel Wang-Landau trajectories are inter-swapped to prevent trapping. We also explain why swapping frees the random walker from such traps. The efficacy of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated.

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