The problem of order–order and order–disorder transitions in the system described by the 2D antiferromagnetic Blume–Capel model in the presence of a magnetic field is studied by the Wang and Landau flat-histogram simulation method and by the classical Monte Carlo. Anomalous thermodynamic...

Two-dimensional Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model on a N×N square lattice embedded on a Klein bottle and a projective plane is investigated by computer simulations. The behavior of the model with these boundary conditions is compared with the model under toroidal boundary conditions. Our...

Based on a recently developed algorithm for the exploration of ground states in bond-diluted lattice spin glasses, we determine the scaling of defect energies with system size for Ising spin glasses at the bond percolation threshold pc. The results can be related by well-known scaling relations...

Phase transitions of the mixed spin- 1/2 and spin-S (S≥1/2) Ising model on a three-dimensional (3D) decorated lattice with a layered magnetic structure are investigated within the framework of a precise mapping relationship to the simple spin- 1/2 Ising model on a tetragonal lattice. This...

Condensation phase transitions in polydisperse colloids are studied theoretically. For maximal simplification of calculations, a bidisperse model of the system, consisting of relatively big and small particles, is considered. Direct van der Waals interactions between big particles as well as...

We study the relationship between chaotic behavior and the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) in the Kuramoto model. We calculate sums of angles at equidistant times along deterministic trajectories of single oscillators and we show that, when chaos is sufficiently strong, the Pdfs of the sums tend to...

Monte Carlo simulation within the grand canonical ensemble, the histogram reweighting technique, and finite size scaling analysis are used to explore the phase behaviour of heteronuclear dimers, composed of A and B type segments, on square and triangular lattices. We have considered models with...

We study information geometry of the thermodynamics of first and second order phase transitions, and beyond criticality, in magnetic and liquid systems. We establish a universal microscopic characterization of such phase transitions via a conjectured equality of the correlation lengths ξ in...

In this paper, an accurate experimental investigation of the Mpemba effect (that is, of the fact that initially hot water freezes before the colder one) is carried out, showing that, in the adiabatic cooling of water, relevant roles are played by supercooling, and by phase transitions which take...

The problem of existence of long-range order at or close to the critical point of the quantum phase transition in the disordered antiferromagnet with hidden degrees of freedom is discussed. The influence of the constraint upon hidden degrees of freedom within the renormalization group theory is...