The kosterlitz-thouless transition in thin films: A Monte Carlo study of three-dimensional lattice models

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hasenbusch, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical Monte Carlo simulations; Critical exponents and amplitudes (theory); Finite size scaling; Surface effects (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449179963     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/02/P02005     Document Type: Article

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