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A field-theoretical description of the behavior of disordered, elastically isotropic, compressible systems characterized by two order parameters at the bicritical and tetracritical points is presented. The description is performed in the…
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The class of random-cluster models is a unification of a variety of stochastic processes of significance for probability and statistical physics, including percolation, Ising, and Potts models; in addition, their study has impact on the…
Influences of defects generating random fields on modulated phases in materials with the order-disorder type of phase transition are studied. It is shown that under appropriate conditions third harmonics of the ground state modulation may…
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