Strength distribution of repeatedly broken chains

DOI10.1007/S10955-007-9320-2MaRDI QIDQ2641377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. Mehlig, Michael Wilkinson

Publication date 20 August 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608574

zbMATH Keywords

chain breakingfragmentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We determine the probability distribution of the breaking strength for chains of N links, which have been produced by repeatedly breaking a very long chain.

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