A practical guide to replica-exchange Wang-Landau simulations

This paper is based on a series of tutorial lectures about the replica-exchange Wang-Landau (REWL) method given at the IX Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics (BMSP 2017). It provides a practical guide for the implementation of the method. A complete example code for a model system is available...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 1012; no. 1; pp. 12003 - 12018
Main Authors Vogel, Thomas, Wai Li, Ying, P Landau, David
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.04.2018
Subjects
Algorithms
Message passing
Parallel programming
Physics
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Summary:This paper is based on a series of tutorial lectures about the replica-exchange Wang-Landau (REWL) method given at the IX Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics (BMSP 2017). It provides a practical guide for the implementation of the method. A complete example code for a model system is available online. In this paper, we discuss the main parallel features of this code after a brief introduction to the REWL algorithm. The tutorial section is mainly directed at users who have written a single-walker Wang-Landau program already but might have just taken their first steps in parallel programming using the Message Passing Interface (MPI). In the last section, we answer "frequently asked questions" from users about the implementation of REWL for different scientific problems.
Bibliography:USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
AC05-00OR22725
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1012/1/012003