Clusters and fluctuations at mean-field critical points and spinodals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1270-1273

  Klein, W ^a,b   Gould, Harvey ^c   Tobochnik, J ^d   Alexander, F J ^e   Anghel, M ^a   Johnson, Gregory ^c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KALAMAZOO COLLEGE   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CLUSTERS; FLUCTUATIONS; MEAN FIELD CRITICAL POINTS; SPINODALS;

PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE);

EID: 0034246508     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1270     Document Type: Article

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