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Critical phenomena of ferromagnetic transition at finite temperatures are studied in double-exchange systems. In order to investigate strong interplay between charge and spin degrees of freedom, Monte Carlo technique is applied to include…
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We show that, for the transition between any two quantum Hall states, the semi-circle law and the existence of a duality symmetry follow solely from the consistency of the law of corresponding states with the two-dimensional scaling flow.…