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diff --git a/essential-ising_prl.txt b/essential-ising_prl.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 41039c1..0000000 --- a/essential-ising_prl.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ - -The renormalization group and the scaling theories that result from its use -have become essential to our understanding of singular behavior in -thermodynamic functions at continuous phase transitions. Despite this, they -have long been viewed as irrelevant to the quantitative study of abrupt phase -transitions, and likewise the presence of an abrupt phase transition has -typically been considered irrelevant to scaling analysis. Our work -demonstrates, for one common model with both a continuous and a -line of abrupt transitions, that well-known singularities in thermodynamic -functions at the abrupt transition long assumed to be unobservable are in fact -part of the scaling theory of the critical point, and make explicit -predictions confirmed by numerics. This result indicates that many published -statistical models whose abrupt transitions were not incorporated into scaling -theories should be revisited, and introduces a novel new method for -determining new universal scaling properties in previously poorly-understood -regimes. - - |