Identifying transitions in finite systems by means of partition function   zeros and microcanonical inflection-point analysis: A comparison for elastic   flexible polymers
  For the estimation of transition points of finite elastic, flexible polymers with chain lengths from $13$ to $309$ monomers, we compare systematically transition temperatures obtained by the Fisher partition function zeros approach with recent results from microcanonical inflection-point analysis. These methods rely on accurate numerical estimates of the density of states, which have been obtained by advanced multicanonical Monte Carlo sampling techniques. Both the Fisher zeros method and microcanonical inflection-point analysis yield very similar results and enable the unique identification of transition points in finite systems, which is typically impossible in the conventional canonical analysis of thermodynamic quantities. 
Julio C. S. Rocha, Stefan Schnabel, David P. Landau, and Michael   Bachmann
physics.data-an cond-mat.soft cond-mat.stat-mech physics.comp-ph