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摘要:The antiferromagnetic Ising model on the triangular lattice--a toy model for geometric frustrations--is known to be notoriously difficult for Monte Carlo simulations. Hereby I shall first introduce the conventional Metropolis method and two versions of the Swendsen-Wang-type cluster algorithms, and demonstrate (rigorously or numerically) that they are non-ergodic at zero temperature. Then, I shall present three variants of the recently developed worm algorithm. One of them is still non-ergodic at zero temperature, while the ergodicity of the other two has been proved. Further, the two ergodic methods only suffer minor critical slowing down.
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