Phase transition properties of 3D Potts models

2008/04/28 by Alexei Bazavov, Bernd A. Berg, Santosh Dubey
Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Material Dynamics and Properties #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.04.020

published as Nucl.Phys.B802:421-434,2008 · 18 pages, 7 figures. Correction of minor typos, one reference added

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Abstract

Using multicanonical Metropolis simulations we estimate phase transition properties of 3D Potts models for q=4 to 10: The transition temperatures, latent heats, entropy gaps, normalized entropies at the disordered and ordered endpoints, interfacial tensions, and spinodal endpoints.

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