Microcanonical approach to the simulation of first-order phase transitions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Martin Mayor, V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FLAT HISTOGRAM METHODS; MICROCANONICAL STRATEGIES; PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 34047163875     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.137207     Document Type: Article

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