Reentrant behavior of the spinodal curve in a nonequilibrium ferromagnet

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2 1, 2004, Pages

  Hurtado, P I ^a,b   Marro, J ^b   Garrido, P L ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMAS; PROTEINS; THERMAL NOISE;

METASTABILITY; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NONEQUILIBRIUM FERROMAGNETS; SPINODAL CURVES;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 42749099624     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.021101     Document Type: Article

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