Necessary and sufficient condition for a disorder-broadened transition to be identified as 1st order
Materials Science
2014-05-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Disorder-broadened 1st order transitions may not carry the experimental signature of a latent heat. We discuss what experimental observation can provide a necessary and sufficient condition for characterizing this phase transition as 1st order.
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@article{arxiv.1405.1162,
title = {Necessary and sufficient condition for a disorder-broadened transition to be identified as 1st order},
author = {P. Chaddah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1162},
year = {2014}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures