Relevance of space anisotropy in the critical behavior of m-axial Lifshitz points

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Diehl, H W ^a   Shpot, M A ^a,b   Zia, R K P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MODEL; SPACE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0742280370     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.224415     Document Type: Article

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