The classical statistical mechanics of Frenkel-Kontorova models.

DOI10.1007/BF02178353zbMath1081.82524MaRDI QIDQ1593248

Robert S. MacKay

Publication date: 16 January 2001

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02178353

zbMATH Keywords

specific heat; renormalization; scaling; anti-integrable limit; sliding-pinned transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82B20: Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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