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Description of phenomenological models of phase transitions by the methods of the catastrophe theory

S.V. Pavlov

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 1990. 45. N 1. P. 73

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The theorem of the catastrophe theory are used to show that all the phase transitions in the system with no more than three order parameters can phenornenologically be described by one of 15 classes of functions called min-functions.

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S.V. Pavlov
Department of Physics of Crystals, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Issue 1, 1990

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