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Published on: June 7, 2018
High-resolution Monte Carlo study of the order-parameter distribution of the three-dimensional Ising model
Jiahao Xu1, Alan M Ferrenberg2, David P Landau1
1Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
Abstract:
We apply extensive Monte Carlo simulations to study the probability distribution P(m) of the order parameter m for the simple cubic Ising model with periodic boundary condition at the transition point. Sampling is performed with the Wolff cluster flipping algorithm, and histogram reweighting together with finite-size scaling analyses are then used to extract a precise functional form for the probability distribution of the magnetization, P(m), in the thermodynamic limit. This form should serve as a benchmark for other models in the three-dimensional Ising universality class.
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