Author(s)

Snehadri Bihari Ota¹, Smita Ota¹, Akiro Ota²

¹Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar, India.
²Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

Monte Carlo simulation of two dimensional 4 state Potts model has been carried out in microcanonical ensemble. The simulations were done on a 30 × 30 system with periodic boundary conditions. The temperature dependence of energy and order parameter has been calculated. The transition in 4-state Potts model is concluded to be first-order in nature. The transition temperature and latent heat of the first-order transition have been found to be 0.92 and 0.18, respectively.

Microcanonical Monte Carlo, Potts Model, First-Order Transition

Ota, S. , Ota, S. and Ota, A. (2017) Microcanonical Monte Carlo Simulation of 2D 4-State Potts Model. Journal of Modern Physics, 8, 602-606. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2017.84040.