Just writing this down someplace safe. Discussing with Alexei Bazavov today he mentioned to me the Wang and Landau algorithm (PRL) which is a method for constructing the density of states.
Quoting Wikipedia,
The major consequence is that this sampling distribution leads to a simulation where the energy barriers are invisible. This means that the algorithm visits all the accessible states (favorable and less favorable) much faster than a Metropolis algorithm.
but neither is it just random sampling. I have to say I do not yet understand it---I'd have to code up an example myself to really grok it. But it may be of interest!
Just writing this down someplace safe. Discussing with Alexei Bazavov today he mentioned to me the Wang and Landau algorithm (PRL) which is a method for constructing the density of states.
Quoting Wikipedia,
but neither is it just random sampling. I have to say I do not yet understand it---I'd have to code up an example myself to really grok it. But it may be of interest!