Extreme long-time dynamic Monte Carlo simulations for metastable decay in the d = 3 Ising ferromagnet

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 121-131

  Kolesik, Miroslav ^a   Novotny, M A ^b   Rikvold, Per Arne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Monte Carlo; Ising; Metastability; Time scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038069082     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183103004279     Document Type: Article

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