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On phase transitions with bilinearly coupled order parameters

✍ Scribed by Czeslaw Oleksy; Jerzy Przystawa

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
143 KB
Volume
121
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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