Critical behaviour of complex systems
- 17 February 2000
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 12 (8A) , A459-A463
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/12/8a/363
Abstract
An overview of recent results of the critical behaviour of micellar systems is given. It is found that it is possible to define a master curve for the effective critical exponent eff for systems that show a monotonic crossover. It is also shown that the critical behaviour of the osmotic susceptibility of a metastable critical system is the same as that of stable systems. Finally the two-exponential decay of the fluctuations of the order parameter is discussed.Keywords
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