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A brief review of numerical simulation methods is given. After describing convergence criteria for the usual (canonical ensemble) Monte-Carlo methods, a numerical study of the microcanonical ensemble for Ising-like systems is described.
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Bhanot, G. (1984). Numerical simulations — Canonical and microcanonical. In: Roy, P., Singh, V. (eds) Supersymmetry and Supergravity Nonperturbative QCD. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-13390-9_13
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