Physics · Computational & Experimental Methods
A topic within Computational & Experimental Methods, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Physics.
2 works
Werner Krauth
Works through Markov-chain Monte Carlo for statistical mechanics models from first principles, building detailed balance and the Metropolis rule up from simple examples rather than stating them as axioms.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Fugao Wang & D. P. Landau
Proposes sampling a flat histogram in energy rather than the Boltzmann distribution directly, letting a single Monte Carlo run recover the full density of states of a statistical-physics model.
link checked 17 Sept 2026