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Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 86–88 (1987)

Nonuniversal critical dynamics in Monte Carlo simulations

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Robert H. Swendsen
Physics Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 and Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgis, Athens, Georgia 30602

Jian-Sheng Wang
Physics Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Received 28 May 1986; published in the issue dated 12 January 1987

A new approach to Monte Carlo simulations is presented, giving a highly efficient method of simulation for large systems near criticality. The algorithm violates dynamic universality at second-order phase transitions, producing unusually small values of the dynamical critical exponent.

© 1987 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.86
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.86
PACS:
05.50.+q, 64.60.Ht, 75.40.Mg