A note on the metastability of the Ising model: The alternate updating case

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 385-390

  Cirillo, Emilio N M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical droplets; Metastability; Spin models; Stochastic dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036114050     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013144717688     Document Type: Article

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