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arXiv:cond-mat/0101035 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Finite Size Scaling of the 2D Six-Clock Model

Mitsuhiro Itakura

Published Feb 15, 2001• 3 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the isotropic-anisotropic phase transition of the two-dimensional XY model with six-fold anisotropy, using Monte Carlo renormalization group method. The result indicates difficulty of observing asymptotic critical behavior in Monte Carlo simulations, owing to the marginal flow at the fixed point.
DOI
10.1143/jpsj.70.600

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