Worm Monte Carlo study of the honeycomb-lattice loop model

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 846, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-315

  Liu, Qingquan ^a   Deng, Youjin ^a   Garoni, Timothy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Loop model; Monte carlo; Worm algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952703682     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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