{
  "id": "cond-mat/0611543",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2006-11-21T11:01:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-11-21T11:01:27.000Z",
  "title": "Microcanonical Approach to the Simulation of First-Order Phase Transitions",
  "authors": [
    "V. Martin-Mayor"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 postscript figures",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett.98:137207,2007",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.137207",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "hep-lat"
  ],
  "abstract": "A generalization of the microcanonical ensemble suggests a simple strategy for the simulation of first order phase transitions. At variance with flat-histogram methods, there is no iterative parameters optimization, nor long waits for tunneling between the ordered and the disordered phases. We test the method in the standard benchmark: the Q-states Potts model (Q=10 in 2 dimensions and Q=4 in 3 dimensions), where we develop a cluster algorithm. We obtain accurate results for systems with more than one million of spins, outperforming flat-histogram methods that handle up to tens of thousands of spins.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2006-11-21T11:01:27.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "75.40.Mg",
      "05.50.+q",
      "64.60.Cn"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "first-order phase transitions",
      "microcanonical approach",
      "simulation",
      "first order phase transitions",
      "q-states potts model"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 732471
    }
  }
}