The distribution of spatially averaged criticalproperties

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 443-447

  Bramwell, Steven T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PROPERTIES; CURRENT DATA; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALING VARIABLES;

EID: 67650269859     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1268     Document Type: Article

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