MOMENTUM-SPACE MONTE-CARLO RENORMALIZATION-GROUP PROCEDURE

We implement a momentum-space renormalization-group procedure into the Monte Carlo renormalization-group (MCRG) method. Usually the symmetries of the system must be known and incorporated into the renormalization group, but here we let the renormalization group be given by the Monte Carlo simulation itself This allows the MCRG method to be applicable to systems where the underlying symmetries may not be known, such as in Monte Carlo studies of quantum systems. As a test of this method, we apply it to the study of the two-dimensional square-lattice q-state Potts model, both for integer values of q and for noninteger values of q near q = 4.