On the mean-field spherical model

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1195-1214

  Kastner, Michael ^a   Schnetz, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

N 1 model; Canonical; Ensemble nonequivalence; Fisher zeros of the partition function; Microcanonical; Mixed isovector isotensor model; Model equivalence; Partial equivalence; Phase transitions; Spherical model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645738371     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-005-8031-9     Document Type: Article

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