Nonstandard Finite-Size Scaling at First-Order Phase Transitions
Nonstandard Finite-Size Scaling at First-Order Phase Transitions
We note that the standard inverse system volume scaling for finite-size corrections at a first-order phase transition (i.e., 1/L^3 for an L x L x L lattice in 3D) is transmuted to 1/L^2 scaling if there is an exponential low-temperature phase degeneracy. The gonihedric Ising model which has a four-spin …