On phase transitions with bilinearly cou
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Czeslaw Oleksy; Jerzy Przystawa
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Article
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1983
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Elsevier Science
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English
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It is explicitly shown that, contrary to the common assertion, phase transitions driven by two bilinearly coupled order parameters can be continuous, i.e., irreducibility of the representation involved is not necessary for the phase transition to be of second order in the Landau sense.