transition for samples comprised of N spins. While we find power-law scaling of τ versus N for small Q 50 and N 40 2 , we observe a crossover to exponential scaling for larger Q. These results demonstrate that despite the ensemble optimization, broad-histogram simulations cannot fully eliminate the supercritical slowing down at strongly first-order transitions.
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