Theory of the dynamics of first-order phase transitions: Unstable fixed points, exponents, and dynamical scaling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 17, 2005, Pages

  Zhong, Fan ^a   Chen, Qizhou ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; REACTION KINETICS;

CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS (FOPTS); RENORMALIZATION-GROUP (RG);

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 28844479148     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.175701     Document Type: Article

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