Physical Review Letters

Using Renormalization-Group Ideas in Monte Carlo Sampling

Kevin E. Schmidt

Published Dec 12, 1983• 61 citations

Abstract

Renormalization-group methods are used to produce a novel Monte Carlo sampling algorithm which alleviates the problem of critical slowing down. The method is applied by means of a Kadanoff block-spin transformation to the one- and two-dimensional Ising models.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.51.2175

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