Properties of phase transitions of higher order
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
There is only limited experimental evidence for the existence in nature of phase transitions of Ehrenfest order greater than two. However, there is no physical reason for their non-existence, and such transitions certainly exist in a number of theoretical models in statistical physics and lattice field theory. Here, higher-order transitions are analysed through the medium of partition function zeros. Results concerning the distributions of zeros are derived as are scaling relations between some of the critical exponents.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0512022,
title = {Properties of phase transitions of higher order},
author = {W. Janke and D. A. Johnston and R. Kenna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0512022},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, poster presented at Lattice 2005 (Spin and Higgs), Trinity College Dublin