Pluchino, Alessandro; Andronico, Giuseppe; Rapisarda, Andrea - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 349 (2005) 1, pp. 143-154
We present a Monte Carlo numerical investigation of the Hamiltonian mean field (HMF) model. We begin by discussing canonical Metropolis Monte Carlo calculations, in order to check the caloric curve of the HMF model and study finite size effects. In the second part of the paper, we present...