Sequential Cavity Method for Computing Free Energy and Surface Pressure
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Gamarnik, David; Katz, Dmitriy
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We propose a new method for the problems of computing free energy and surface pressure for various statistical mechanics models on a
lattice Zd [Z superscript d]. Our method is based on representing the free energy and
surface pressure in terms of certain marginal probabilities in a suitably
modi ed sublattice of Zd [Z superscript d]. Then recent deterministic algorithms for computing marginal probabilities are used to obtain numerical estimates of
the quantities of interest. The method works under the assumption of
Strong Spatial Mixing (SSP), which is a form of a correlation decay.
We illustrate our method for the hard-core and monomer-dimer models, and improve several earlier estimates. For example we show that the
exponent of the monomer-dimer coverings of Z3 [Z superscript 3] belongs to the interval
[0:78595; 0:78599], improving best previously known estimate of (approx-
imately) [0:7850; 0:7862] obtained in [FP05],[FKLM]. Moreover, we show
that given a target additive error e [epsilon] > 0, the computational e ffort of our
method for these two models is (1=e)O(1) [(1 / epsilon) superscript 0(1)] both for free energy and surface
pressure. In contrast, prior methods, such as transfer matrix method,
require exp ((1/e)0/1) [((1 / epsilon) superscript 0(1))]
computation e ffort.
Date issued
2009-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center; Sloan School of ManagementJournal
Journal of Statistical Physics
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Gamarnik, David, and Dmitriy Katz. “Sequential Cavity Method for Computing Free Energy and Surface Pressure.” Journal of Statistical Physics 137.2 (2009) : 205-232. Copyright © 2009, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0022-4715