Mag-walking

Mag-walking is sufficiently simple that it can be useful for some many-particle applications where the locations of the barriers between the minima are known in advance. Unfortunately this simple extension, based on two (or more) maximum stepsizes, fails for many important applications of Monte Carlo to interacting many-particle systems. For many-body applications the potential minima are generally separated not just by a distance but also by one or more curvilinear directions. To move from one potential well to another in a many-particle application, specifying the distance between the wells is insufficient. Because the locations of the wells are seldom known in advance, more sophisticated approaches are usually necessary. 

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P. Gonzalez de Santos, J. A. Galvez, J. Estremera and E. Garcia, SIIj04 - A true walking robot for the comparative study of walking machine techniques, IEEE Robot Autom Mag 10 (4) (2003), pp. 23-32. 

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