Study of a planar lattice model with P4 interaction

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 105-112

  Mukhopadhyay, Kisor ^a   Pal, Abhijit ^a   Roy, Soumen Kumar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Lattice models; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CLUSTER CALCULATIONS; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; LATTICE MODELING; LATTICE MODELS; MEAN FIELD; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; PLANAR LATTICE;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 0042281008     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00028-6     Document Type: Article

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