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On the convergence issues of the block‐average method for the melting of two‐dimensional confined systems
Author(s) -
Bessaa Assia,
Djebli Mourad
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.201700128
Subject(s) - convergence (economics) , block (permutation group theory) , monte carlo method , statistical physics , simple (philosophy) , mathematics , computer science , mathematical optimization , algorithm , physics , geometry , statistics , philosophy , epistemology , economics , economic growth
The auto‐correlation between blocks in Monte Carlo simulations may present another typical problem for the convergence of the block‐average method used to predict the melting of small confined systems. We suggest a simple statistical way to avoid this problem for different packing configurations.