Semigrand-canonical Monte-Carlo Simulation Methods for Charge-Decorated Cluster Expansions
Computational materials science(2023)
摘要
Monte-Carlo sampling of lattice model Hamiltonians is a well-established technique in statistical mechanics for studying the configurational entropy of crystalline materials. When the species to be distributed on the lattice carry charge, the charge balance constraint on the overall system prohibits single-site Metropolis exchanges in MC. In this article, we propose two methods to perform MC sampling in the semigrand-canonical ensemble in the presence of a charge-balance constraint. The table-exchange method (TE) constructs small charge-conserving excitations, and the square-charge bias method (SCB) allows the system to temporarily drift away from charge neutrality. We illustrate the effect of internal hyper-parameters on the efficiency of these algorithms and suggest practical strategies on how to employ these algorithms in real applications.
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Cluster expansion (CE),Semigrand-canonical Monte-Carlo (sGCMC),Ionic solid
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