Dynamical blume-capel model: Competing metastable states at infinite volume

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 1029-1090

  Manzo, F ^a   Olivieri, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blume capel model; Metastability; Nucleation; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035538499     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010401711216     Document Type: Article

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