Analysis of phase transitions in the mean-field Blume-Emery-Griffiths model

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 2203-2254

  Ellis, Richard S ^a,d   Otto, Peter T ^a,c   Touchette, Hugo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium macrostates; First order phase transition; Large deviation principle; Second order phase transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744470029     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051605000000421     Document Type: Article

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