Nonanalyticities of the entropy induced by saddle points of the potential energy landscape

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kastner, Michael ^a   Schnetz, Oliver ^b   Schreiber, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical phase transitions (theory); Energy landscapes (theory); Solvable lattice models

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049096432     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/P04025     Document Type: Article

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