%0 Journal Article %@ 0031-9007 %A Deng, YJ %A Garoni, TM %A Sokal, AD %D 2007 %F discovery:82823 %I AMER PHYSICAL SOC %J PHYS REV LETT %K POTTS-MODEL, O(N) %N 11 %T Dynamic critical behavior of the worm algorithm for the ising model %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/82823/ %V 99 %X We study the dynamic critical behavior of the worm algorithm for the two- and three-dimensional Ising models, by Monte Carlo simulation. The autocorrelation functions exhibit an unusual three-time-scale behavior. As a practical matter, the worm algorithm is slightly more efficient than the Swendsen-Wang algorithm for simulating the two-point function of the three-dimensional Ising model. %Z © 2007 The American Physical Society