A criterion for symmetric tricritical points in condensed ordered phases

DOI10.1017/S0956792510000355zbMath1268.82023MaRDI QIDQ3117944

Epifanio G. Virga, Fulvio Bisi, Eugene C. Gartland jun.

Publication date: 1 March 2012

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsbifurcation problemsbifurcations and instabilitycomputational methods for bifurcation problemscritical points of functions and mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27)

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