From f619693ba6cb25112c92af4dc555d8a1499ac32c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James P. Sethna" Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:53:23 -0400 Subject: New draft for 100 word blurb --- essential-ising_prl2.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 essential-ising_prl2.txt (limited to 'essential-ising_prl2.txt') diff --git a/essential-ising_prl2.txt b/essential-ising_prl2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cc1f44 --- /dev/null +++ b/essential-ising_prl2.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The Ising model critical point governs the termination of a line of abrupt transitions (e.g., the liquid-gas transition endpoint at high pressure). The universal scaling functions describing the critical behavior in non-zero field have long been a challenge. We show that these scaling functions inherit an essential singularity from the abrupt transition line, associated with the nucleation of droplets in the metastable phase (e.g. the supercooled gas), giving an analytic formula for the singularity and fitting to simulations. This same basic method may be useful in studying other critical points with metastability, such as in glasses and disordered systems. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2