Criticality and quenched disorder: Harris criterion versus rare regions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Vojta, Thomas ^a   Hoyos, José A ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; KINETICS; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84894784436     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.075702     Document Type: Article

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