Resolving the order of phase transitions in Monte Carlo simulations
- 7 June 1990
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 23 (11) , L561-L566
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/23/11/009
Abstract
The authors made a Monte Carlo simulation of the two-dimensional Potts model with q=3, 4 and 5 to examine the question whether numerical methods can distinguish the order of a phase transition for the subtle cases that this model exemplifies. They found that the finite-size scaling test for susceptibilities has sufficient power for this purpose, whereas the simple method of detecting metastability signals often fails.Keywords
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