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13 Lattices and Data Structures
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Published:February 1999
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In the preceding chapters of this book we have looked at quite a number of problems and models in statistical physics, and described a variety of different Monte Carlo methods for their study. For many of these Monte Carlo methods we have also given some details about how they can be most efficiently implemented on a typical modern computer. Many details of implementation however are common to a lot of different algorithms, and in the remaining four chapters of this book we examine some of these general implementation issues. For instance, pretty much all of the problems discussed in this book are defined on a lattice, and so we need to know how to represent such a lattice on our computer. Also, most of our algorithms require us to store a certain amount of data regarding, for example, spin clusters or other constructs, and for this we need to know about the efficient implementation of data structures. In this chapter we describe the basic techniques for handling these issues in Monte Carlo programs. If you are an experienced computer programmer, some of this material may already be familiar to you, in which case you will probably want to skip over those parts.
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