title: Behavior of damage spreading in the two-dimensional Blume-Capel model.
abstract: The damage spreading technique has been used to study the general integer and half-integer spin-S Blume-Capel model on the square lattice within a Metropolis-type dynamics. For S=1 and 2 integer spins, our results suggest that there exists one multicritical point along the order-disorder transition line; for S=3/2 and 5/2 half-integer spins, our results show that this multicritical behavior does not exist for this model.
authors.affiliation: Center for Simulational Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA. liu@hal.physast.uga.edu
authors.forename: Ce-Jun
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: H-B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Schüttler