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The counterion-condensation transition at charged cylinders is studied using Monte-Carlo simulation methods. Employing logarithmically rescaled radial coordinates, large system sizes are tractable and the critical behavior is determined by…
Coexistence properties of the hard-core attractive Yukawa potential with inverse-range parameter kappa=9, 10, 12 and 15 are calculated by applying canonical Monte Carlo simulation. As previously shown for longer ranges, we show that also…
Numerical exploration of the properties of singularities could, in principle, yield detailed understanding of their nature in physically realistic cases. Examples of numerical investigations into the formation of naked singularities,…
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We study phase diagrams of a class of doped quantum dimer models on the square lattice with ground-state wave functions whose amplitudes have the form of the Gibbs weights of a classical doped dimer model. In this dimer model, parallel…