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Study of Cluster Fluctuations in Twodimensional y qState Potts Mo del Meral Aydn Yigit Gund u c and Tark C elik Hacettep e University Physics Department Beytep e Ankara Turkey Abstract The twodimensional Potts Mo del with to states is studied using a cluster algorithm to calculate uctuations in cluster size as well as commonly used quantities like equilibrium averages and the histograms for energy and the order parameter Results provide information ab out the variation of cluster sizes dep ending on the temp erature and the numb er of states They also give evidence for rstorder transition when energy and the order parameter related measurables are inconclusive on small size lattices Keywords Phase transition Potts mo del clusters Monte Carlo simulation yThis pro ject is partially supp orted by Turkish Scientic and Technical Research Council TUBITAK under the pro ject TBAG and TBAG Intro duction Identifying the phase structure of a statistical mechanical system has b een one of the most challenging problems of contemp orary physics Secondorder phase transitions are well understo o d in the contexts of renormalization group and nite size scaling theories For the case of rstorder phase transitions for a recent review see the diculty arises with the systems p ossesing nite but very large correlation length In such systems the transition can easily b e confused with secondorder phase transition when the measurements are done on a nite system One of the commonly used metho ds to determine the order of a phase transition is due to Challa et al which considers distributions of energy or order parameter and compares these distibutions with a single or a