Friday, May 31, 2013

1305.6850 (E. B. S. Corrêa et al.)

Finite-size, magnetic and chemical-potential effects on first-order
phase transitions
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E. B. S. Corrêa, C. A. Linhares, A. P. C. Malbouisson
We perform a study about effects of an applied magnetic field and a finite chemical potential on the size-dependent phase structure of a first-order transition. These effects are introduced by using methods of quantum fields defined on toroidal spaces, and we study in particular the case of two compactified dimensions, imaginary time and a spatial one (a heated film). It is found that for any value of the applied field, there is a minimal size of the system, independent of the chemical potential, below which the transition disappears.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6850

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