Finite-Size Scaling at $ξ/L \gg 1$
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- 6 September 1994
Abstract
We present a simple and powerful method for extrapolating finite-volume Monte Carlo data to infinite volume, based on finite-size-scaling theory. We discuss carefully its systematic and statistical errors, and we illustrate it using three examples: the two-dimensional three-state Potts antiferromagnet on the square lattice, and the two-dimensional $O(3)$ and $O(\infty)$ $\sigma$-models. In favorable cases it is possible to obtain reliable extrapolations (errors of a few percent) even when the correlation length is 1000 times larger than the lattice.
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- Version 1, 1994-09-06, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 74 (15), 2969.
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