First-order phase transitions: A study through the parallel tempering method

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

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Fiore, Carlos E ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORUNDUM; PHOTOTRANSISTORS; TEMPERING;

DISCONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; FIRST-ORDER; GRIFFITHS MODELS; LOW TEMPERATURES; PARALLEL TEMPERING; PARALLEL TEMPERING METHODS; PRECISE; PT METHODS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 54549115068     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041109     Document Type: Article

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