Metricization of thermodynamic-state space and the renormalization group
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 29 (6) , 3343-3345
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.29.3343
Abstract
We suggest a new geometrical interpretation of the renormalization-group transformation near the critical point. Using the Weinhold-Ruppeiner metricization, conformal Killing symmetry is assumed and scaling laws are verified.Keywords
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