First Cluster Algorithm Special Purpose Processor
Abstract
We describe the architecture of the special purpose processor built to realize in hardware cluster Wolff algorithm, which is not hampered by a critical slowing down. The processor simulates two-dimensional Ising-like spin systems. With minor changes the same very effective architecture, which can be defined as a Memory Machine, can be used to study phase transitions in a wide range of models in two or three dimensions.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics C
- Pub Date:
- 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0129183193000653
- Bibcode:
- 1993IJMPC...4..787T
- Keywords:
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- Special Processor;
- Random Number Generation;
- Ising Model;
- Random Fields;
- Monte-Carlo Simulations;
- Phase Transitions;
- Cluster Algorithms;
- Wolff Algorithm