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Christian Borgs - Partition function zeros for first order phase transitions
| CHRISTIAN BORGS, Microsoft Research |
| Partition function zeros for first order phase transitions |
It is well known that phase transitions are closely related to zeros in the complex temperature and field plane. In this talk I present a new approach to determine partition function zeros near first order phase transitions. I discuss the relation of our results to the Lee Yang theorem on the one hand, and to the theory of finite size scaling on the other.
