Ordered metastable states in the Potts model and their connection with the superheated solid state

Felipe Moreno, Sergio Davis, Claudia Loyola and Joaquín Peralta

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 509, issue C, 361-368

Abstract: The superheating effect, in which a solid is heated well above its melting temperature and remains in an ordered, metastable phase, is a well-known phenomenon in materials science. Superheating can be observed experimentally under carefully controlled conditions, and more routinely in atomistic computer simulations. In the context of simulations of superheating, the so-called Z-method is a recently developed technique which allows a precise characterization of the metastable solid state and the melting temperature. However, metastable states are also present in other first-order phase transitions such as the order–disorder transition in spin systems. In spite of all the available work on the behavior of superheated solids, there have been few attempts to characterize the metastable ordered phase in contexts other than melting.

Keywords: Potts model; Monte Carlo simulation; Phase transition; Superheating; Spin system; Z-method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.06.006

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