Microcanonical Approach to the Simulation of First-Order Phase Transitions
Microcanonical Approach to the Simulation of First-Order Phase Transitions
A simple microcanonical strategy for the simulation of first-order phase transitions is proposed. At variance with flat-histogram methods, there is no iterative parameters optimization nor long waits for tunneling between the ordered and the disordered phases. We test the method in the standard benchmark: the Q-states Potts model (Q=10 in …