Disorder-induced rounding of certain quantum phase transitions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Vojta, Thomas ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ELECTRONS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

DISORDER INDUCED ROUNDING; FINITE SIZE SCALING; ISING ORDER PARAMETER SYMMETRY DISORDER; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0037965948     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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