1998/09/30 by Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis, Michael W. Deem
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.477973
8 pages. LaTeX style. To appear in J. Chem. Phys
arxiv created 1998/12/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Detailed balance is an overly strict condition to ensure a valid Monte Carlo simulation. We show that, under fairly general assumptions, a Monte Carlo simulation need satisfy only the weaker balance condition. Not only does our proof show that sequential updating schemes are correct, but also it establishes the correctness of a whole class of new methods that simply leave the Boltzmann distribution invariant.