Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.108, No.21, 6760-6766, 2004
A multigrid algorithm for sampling imaginary-time paths in quantum Monte Carlo simulations
We describe a novel simulation method that eliminates the slowing-down problem in the Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of imaginary-time path integrals near the continuum limit. This method combines a stochastic blocking procedure with the multigrid method to rapidly accelerate the sampling of paths in a quantum MC simulation, making its dynamics more ergodic. The effectiveness and efficiency of this method are demonstrated for several one-dimensional quantum systems and compared to other standard and accelerated methods.