Numerical comparison of two approaches for the study of phase transitions in small systems

Details Numerical comparison of two approaches for the study of phase transitions in small systems Numerical comparison of two approaches for the study of phase transitions in small systems

2001-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112050v1

Phys. Rev. E65 (2002) 036110

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pages and 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036110

We compare two recently proposed methods for the characterization of phase transitions in small systems. The validity and usefulness of these approaches are studied for the case of the q=4 and q=5 Potts model, i.e. systems where a thermodynamic limit and exact results exist. Guided by this analysis we discuss then the helix-coil transition in polyalanine, an example of structural transitions in biological molecules.

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