Low-temperature phase diagrams of quantum lattice systems. I. Stability for quantum perturbations of classical systems with finitely-many ground states

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 455-534

  Datta, Nilanjana ^a,b   Fernández, Roberto ^c,d   Fröhlich, Jürg ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Contour expansions; Low temperature expansions; Phase diagrams; Pirogov Sinai theory; Quantum lattice systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039470427     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02179651     Document Type: Article

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