First-order versus unconventional phase transitions in three-dimensional dimer models

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Papanikolaou, Stefanos ^a   Betouras, Joseph J ^b  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMNAR CRYSTALS; COLUMNAR PHASE; COULOMB LIQUIDS; CRITICAL LINES; CUBIC SYMMETRY; DIMER MODEL; FIRST ORDER; MULTICRITICAL POINT; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; UNIVERSALITY CLASS;

LIQUIDS; OLIGOMERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 75949093050     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.045701     Document Type: Article

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