NUMERICAL STUDY OF FINITE SIZE SCALING FOR FIRST ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS

Alain Billoire
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Alain Billoire: Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay (Laboratoire de la Direction des Sciences de la Matière du CEA.), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 1992, vol. 03, issue 05, 913-919

Abstract: I present reaults of simulations of theq=10andq=202-d Potts models in the transition region. The asymptotic finite size behavior sets in only for extremely large lattices. We learn from this simulation that finite size scaling cannot be used to decide that a transition is first order.

Keywords: First Order Phase Transitions; Monte Carlo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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