Abstract
We have used the Monte Carlo renormalization-group method to study the three-state Potts model in three and four dimensions. In both cases, we find a first-order transition without an associated discontinuity fixed point. The transition in three dimensions is "almost second order" in the sense that some evidence was found for the existence of second-order fixed points associated with singularities in the metastable region just beyond the first-order transition.
- Received 30 April 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.799
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