Properties of higher-order phase transitions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.12.013zbMATH Open1109.82011arXivcond-mat/0512352OpenAlexW2082532513MaRDI QIDQ877362FDOQ877362

Desmond A. Johnston, Wolfhard Janke, R. Kenna

Publication date: 20 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Experimental evidence for the existence of strictly higher-order phase transitions (of order three or above in the Ehrenfest sense) is tenuous at best. However, there is no known physical reason why such transitions should not exist in nature. Here, higher-order transitions characterized by both discontinuities and divergences are analysed through the medium of partition function zeros. Properties of the distributions of zeros are derived, certain scaling relations are recovered, and new ones are presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512352

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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