%I AMER PHYSICAL SOC %D 2007 %O © 2007 The American Physical Society %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. %K POTTS-MODEL, O(N) %A YJ Deng %A TM Garoni %A AD Sokal %L discovery82823 %T Dynamic critical behavior of the worm algorithm for the ising model %V 99 %N 11 %J PHYS REV LETT