title: Addendum to "Event-chain Monte Carlo algorithms for hard-sphere systems".
abstract: We extend the event-chain Monte Carlo algorithm from hard-sphere interactions to general potentials. This event-driven Monte Carlo algorithm is nonlocal and rejection free and allows for the breaking of detailed balance. The algorithm uses a discretized potential, but its running speed is asymptotically independent of the discretization. We apply the algorithm to two-dimensional soft spheres and discuss its possible implementation directly in the continuum limit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. etienne.bernard@mit.edu
authors.forename: Etienne P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Krauth
mesh_terms: D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D010825:Physics / Q000379:methods*