International Journal of Modern Physics B
DENSITY-OF-STATES MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR SIMULATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM BOND POTTS MODEL
You Yu, He-Ping Ying, Qing‐Hu Chen, Pan Zheng-Quan
Abstract
Softening of the phase transition and critical phenomena for the 2D random-bond Potts ferromagnet is investigated by using the density-of-states Monte Carlo method to calculate the thermodynamic properties with a variety of the quenched bond-randomness characterized by a disorder amplitude r=Ks/Kw. The numerical results show that the crossover from the 1st- to 2nd-order transition was induced at finite lattices for the self-dual bimodal distribution.