Eur. Phys. J. B (2017) 90: 81
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2017-70747-x

Regular Article

Dynamic canonical and microcanonical transition matrix analyses of critical behavior

Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G7, Canada

^a e-mail: yevick@uwaterloo.ca

Received: 26 December 2016
Received in final form: 3 March 2017
Published online: 2 May 2017

Abstract

By monitoring the sampling of states with different magnetizations in transition matrix procedures a family of accurate and easily implemented techniques are constructed that automatically control the variation of the temperature or energy as the calculation proceeds. The accuracy of these methods for a single Markov chain exceeds that of standard transition matrix procedures that accumulate elements from multiple chains.