Scaling, clusters and geometry
Qian, XiaofengCitation
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Acknowledgments
During the four years of my PhD work, I have benefited from the help and support that I received from many people.
First of all, I should mention my supervisor Prof. Henk Bl¨ote, whose continuous guid-ance and teaching contributed a lot to this thesis. His wife Anke also helped to create an environment, for work as well as for relaxation, that enabled me to perform the tasks required for this thesis.
Secondly, my thanks go to the people of the Lorentz Institute for the friendly atmo-sphere they provided. In particular I would like to mention Daniel, Chiara, and Maurizio. I also thank the people from LION and P&O for their help with all kinds of documents, most of which were written in Dutch.
I am also grateful to my coworkers for the interesting collaborations and fruitful dis-cussions. Here I would like to mention Dr. Youjin Deng and Prof. Wenan Guo. I wish to express my thanks to all my other friends, Chinese as well as non-Chinese. Their help meant a great support for my life in Leiden.
Finally I consider it essential to express my thanks to my family for their unlimited support and sacrifice that enabled me to study. They provided the basis from which I could come as far as I now am.
Curriculum Vitae
I was born on the 9th of October 1976 in Yongxin, a small town in the province Jiangxi, which lies in the south-east part of China. From 1989 to 1995, I received my middle school and high school education in my hometown.
I started my four-year bachelor program at the Physics Department of Jiangxi Normal University in 1995, and obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in 1999. In the same year I continued with my three-year master program in theoretical physics under the guidance of Prof. J. Zhu. Part of this progam took place in the group of Prof. Z.R. Yang at the Beijing Normal University. I received my Master of Science degree in July 2002.
In the middle of August 2002, I came to the Netherlands and started my PhD study in the Lorentz Institute of the Leiden University under the supervision of Prof. H.W.J. Bl¨ote, whom I met the first time at the Beijing Normal University. My PhD work mainly focuses on the study of phase transitions and critical phenomena of spin models on lattices, as well as on the development of algorithms for this purpose.
List of Publications
• X. Qian, M. Wegewijs and H. W. J. Bl¨ote, Critical frontier of the triangular Ising antiferromagnet in a field, Phys. Rev. E 69, 036127 (2004).
• X. Qian and H. W. J. Bl¨ote, The triangular Ising model with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor couplings in a field, Phys. Rev. E 70, 036112 (2004).
• X. Qian, Y. Deng, and H. W. J. Bl¨ote, Simulation algorithms for the random-cluster model, Phys. Rev. E71, 016709 (2005).
• X. Qian, Y. Deng, and H. W. J. Bl¨ote, Percolation in one of q colors near criticality, Phys. Rev. B 71, 144303 (2005).
• X. Qian, Y. Deng, and H. W. J. Bl¨ote, Dilute Potts model in two dimensions, Phys. Rev. E 72 , 056132 (2005).
• W. Guo, X. Qian, H. W. J. Bl¨ote, F. Y. Wu, Critical line of an n-component cubic model, Phys. Rev. E73, 026104 (2006).
• X. Qian, Y. Deng, H. W. J. Bl¨ote, and A. Sokal, Equivalent-neighbor Potts models in two dimensions, in preparation (2006).
• Y. Deng, X. Qian and H. W. J. Bl¨ote, Single-cluster algorithm for the random-cluster model, in preparation (2006).
• X. Qian, L. N. Shchur, Y. Deng, and H. W.J. Bl¨ote, Universal parameters of three-dimensional Ising systems in preparation (2006).
