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Physical Review Letters

Monte Carlo Renormalization Group

Robert H. Swendsen

Published Apr 2, 1979• 324 citations
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Abstract

A simplified method of applying a renormalization-group analysis to Monte Carlo simulations of general systems is presented and illustrated with applications to the Ising model and the three-state Potts model.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.42.859

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