Note on a Relation between the Order of a Phase Transition and Discontinuities in the Distribution Functions of Molecules
- 1 July 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 16 (7) , 665-668
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1746971
Abstract
It is pointed out that in a phase transition of the n'th order the distribution functions for n molecules change discontinuously at the transition point.Keywords
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