Monte Carlo Methods for the Self-Avoiding Walk

Abstract

This article is a pedagogical review of Monte Carlo methods for the self-avoiding walk, with emphasis on the extraordinarily efficient algorithms developed over the past decade. Many more details can be found in hep-lat/9405016.

Comments: 114824 bytes uuencoded gzip'ed (expands to 305822 bytes Postscript); 8 pages including all figures; contribution to Lattice '95