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Critical Point Behavior

Critical Point Behavior is a thermodynamic phenomenon representing the unique state at which the liquid and vapor phases of a pure substance become indistinguishable, characterized by the termination of the phase coexistence curve in the pressure-temperature plane, where density fluctuations diverge and phase boundaries vanish.

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Self-organized criticality

Per Bak, Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld · Physical review. A, General physics · 1988 · 4.7K citations

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Correlations in Space and Time and Born Approximation Scattering in Systems of Interacting Particles

Léon Van Hove · Physical Review · 1954 · 2.8K citations

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A critical point for random graphs with a given degree sequence

Michael Molloy, Bruce Reed · Random Structures and Algorithms · 1995 · 2.4K citations

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Entanglement entropy and conformal field theory

Pasquale Calabrese, John Cardy · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · 2009 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Static Phenomena Near Critical Points: Theory and Experiment

Leo P. Kadanoff, W. Götze, D.G. Hamblen et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1967 · 1.6K citations

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    H. Eugene Stanley

    Boston University, United States

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    Michael E. Fisher

    Cornell University, United States

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    Sergey V. Buldyrev

    Boston University, United States

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    G. Stell

    Stony Brook University, United States

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    J. V. Sengers

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    15 publications · 701 citations

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    Gaithersburg, United States

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    Boston, United States

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