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The Ising Model

Each of the discussions below is a "Preset": to set the parameters up to work on them, select the corresponding entry in the preset menu.

Description of the Model

Phase Diagram

Magnetization M(T)

Nucleation

Domain Coarsening

Questions for Further Research

Links

New Tools in Physics: Course Description

Cornell Undergraduate Physics Teaching Lab.

LASSP Home Page, and Entertaining Science Done There,

James P. Sethna, sethna@lassp.cornell.edu.

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity, now available at Oxford University Press (USA, Europe).