Classifying first-order phase transitions

Michael E. Fisher and Graeme W. Milton

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1986, vol. 138, issue 1, 22-54

Abstract: The usual classification of phase transitions does not allow for anomalous transitions, such as jumps in a pressure isotherm at constant density, which appear in certain statistical mechanical models of fluids and spin systems (which embody many-body interactions of indefinitely high order). These experimentally unobserved but thermodynamically allowed phase transitions may appear as discontinuities in any first-order derivative of any thermodynamic function other than the appropriate Gibbs free energy.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(86)90172-X

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