Is the Phase Transition of the Three-State Potts Model Continuous in Three Dimensions?
- 3 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (23) , 1736-1739
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.1736
Abstract
The internal energy and the order parameter of the three-state Potts model in a simple cubic lattice are calculated using the Monte Carlo technique. Both properties exhibit metastabilities in a small temperature region demonstrating that the phase transition is of first order. This result is in agreement with the prediction of the expansion but in contrast to the position-space renormalization-group calculations which lead to a continuous transition.
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