Zipf's law in Multifragmentation
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-11 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We discuss the meaning of Zipf's law in nuclear multifragmentation. We remark that Zipf's law is a consequence of a power law fragment size distribution with exponent . We also recall why the presence of such distribution is not a reliable signal of a liquid-gas phase transition.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508541,
title = {Zipf's law in Multifragmentation},
author = {Xavier Campi and Hubert Krivine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508541},
year = {2009}
}