C: Tricks of the trade: Computational Issues
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C: Thermalization (are we in equilibrium?)
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C: Ergodicity (does our method (eventually) visit all points in space to be integrated over?)
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A: Finding critical exponents (characterizing (divergent) behavior of measurements near critical points)
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A: Finite Size effects ( Simulated system must be much much smaller than world being modelled)
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A: Boundary Conditions ( What to do at edge of simulated system)
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T: Pseudo-Random Numbers (to be discussed in detail later and in CPS615)
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C: Acceptance ratio -- trade-off between safe small changes which don't change state very fast versus large changes which may be rejected as fall off "ridge" of large value of integrand.
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A: Critical Slowing Down -- present in nature and simulation
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