ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Mean-field theory correctly predicts the critical behaviour of systems close to a phase transition, provided that fluctuations can be neglected. Fluctuations, however, become important if the dimensionality of the system is lower than a certain upper critical dimension. For such systems, it is ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/23425
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