Rounding of first order transitions in low-dimensional quantum systems with quenched disorder

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Greenblatt, Rafael L ^a   Aizenman, Michael ^b   Lebowitz, Joel L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS SYMMETRY; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; ORDER PARAMETER; QUANTUM SPIN SYSTEMS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; QUENCHED DISORDER; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS;

EID: 70350757658     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.197201     Document Type: Article

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