An Agent Model Formulation of the Ising Model

The Ising model has proved an important test problem for many issues in computational physics. It is normally formulated in terms of a lattice of degrees of freedom which are updated in a carefully chosen Monte Carlo procedure. Numerical experiments normally involve equilibrating configurations and sampling independent configurations in the phase space of all the possible values for the degrees of freedom. In this work the model is used to investigate alternate and unconventional update procedures and as the basis for a spatial agent model.