The Sine Gordon Model: Perturbation Theory and Cluster Monte Carlo

Abstract

We study the expansion of the surface thickness in the 2-dimensional lattice Sine Gordon model in powers of the fugacity z. Using the expansion to order z**2, we derive lines of constant physics in the rough phase. We describe and test a VMR cluster algorithm for the Monte Carlo simulation of the model. The algorithm shows nearly no critical slowing down. We apply the algorithm in a comparison of our perturbative results with Monte Carlo data.

Comments: compressed and uuencoded PostScript file, 25 pages, preprints CERN TH.7374/94, MS-TPI-94-9