Abstract
Inspired by the multicanonical approach to simulations of first-order phase transitions we propose for -state Potts models a combination of cluster updates with reweighting of the bond configurations in the Fortuin-Kastelein-Swendsen-Wang representation of this model. Numerical tests for the two-dimensional models with show that the autocorrelation times of this algorithm grow with the system size as , where the exponent takes the optimal random walk value of .
- Received 6 July 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.212
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