Metastability and spinodal points for a random walker on a triangle

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 837-864

  Arndt, Peter F ^a   Heinzel, Thomas ^a  

^a Physikalisches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free energy functional; Phase transitions; Random walk; Spinodal points; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Universal scalings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032163853     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1023036408873     Document Type: Article

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