Eliminating metastability in first-order phase transitions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 359-363

  Bouabci, M ^a   Carneiro, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 0000897071     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.359     Document Type: Article

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