Monte Carlo study of degenerate ground states and residual entropy in a frustrated honeycomb lattice Ising model

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

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Andrews, Shawn ^a   De Sterck, Hans ^a   Inglis, Stephen ^a   Melko, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY STATE; EXACT CALCULATIONS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; GOLDEN RATIO; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; ISING HAMILTONIAN; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NONEXTENSIVE ENTROPY; NONLOCAL; RESIDUAL ENTROPY; SPIN CONFIGURATIONS; SPIN-FLIP;

ENTROPY; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; ISING MODEL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 65649144811     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.041127     Document Type: Article

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