Qualitative picture of scaling in the entropy formalism

Entropy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 224-239

  Behringer, Hans ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical phenomena; Gaussian and spherical model; Microcanonical entropy; Scaling relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749112768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/entropy-e10030224     Document Type: Article

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