PHYSICAL REVIEW E, cilt.58, sa.4, ss.4210-4212, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
We have simulated, by using a cluster algorithm, the q=8 state Potts model in two dimensions with a varying amount of quenched bond randomness. We have shown that there exists a finite size-dependent threshold value of the introduced quenched bond randomness for rounding the first-order phase transition and that this threshold value becomes smaller as the system size increases. [S1063-651X(98)15509-5].