Information potential and transition to criticality for certain two-species chemical systems

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 455-468

  Gaveau, Bernard ^a   Moreau, Michel ^b   Toth, Janos ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HAMILTONIAN JACOBI THEORY; STOCHASTIC THEORY; TWO SPECIES CHEMICAL SYSTEMS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0033900116     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00429-X     Document Type: Article

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