The ordering phase transitions in solid methane and the cerium monochalcogenides compared. A test of universality

M. Sprik, T. Hijmans and N.J. Trappeniers

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1981, vol. 109, issue 1, 339-346

Abstract: Using data from literature, it is shown that the antiferrorotational transition in solid methane and antiferromagnetic transition in the Ce monochalcogenides are described by the same n = 4 Ginsburg-Landau-Wilson Hamiltonian. Arguments are given that this agreement still applies in the case of a compressible lattice. The conflicting experimental observations in the two systems seem to violate the universality hypothesis.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(81)90055-8

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