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The three-dimensional Ising model: A paradigm of liquid-vaporcoexistence in nuclear multifragmentation

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
OSTI ID:861395
Clusters in the three-dimensional Ising model rigorously obey reducibility and thermal scaling up to the critical temperature. The barriers extracted from Arrhenius plots depend on the cluster size as B {proportional_to} A{sup {sigma}} where {sigma} is a critical exponent relating the cluster size to the cluster surface. All the Arrhenius plots collapse into a single Fisher-like scaling function indicating liquid-vapor-like phase coexistence and the univarian equilibrium between percolating clusters and finite clusters. The compelling similarity with nuclear multifragmentation is discussed.
Research Organization:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy andNuclear Physics. Division of Nuclear Physics; National ScienceFoundation
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
861395
Report Number(s):
LBNL--47575
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 6806
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English