Monte Carlo determination of the critical temperature for the two-dimensional XY model
Abstract
The critical temperature for the two-dimensional XY model on a square lattice is determined to within a few tenths of a percent by combining Monte Carlo simulations with a lattice size scaling relation.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- April 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.37.5986
- Bibcode:
- 1988PhRvB..37.5986W
- Keywords:
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- 75.40.Mg;
- 64.60.-i;
- 05.70.Fh;
- Numerical simulation studies;
- General studies of phase transitions;
- Phase transitions: general studies