Phase transitions in two planar lattice models and topological defects: A Monte Carlo study

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 6 2, 2004, Pages

  Dutta, Subhrajit ^a   Roy, Soumen Kumar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POINT DEFECTS; POINT GROUPS; PROBABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LATTICE SITES; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC (NI) TRANSITION; QUASI LONG RANGE ORDER (QLRO); TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 41349099367     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.066125     Document Type: Article

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