2002/12/02 by S. Friedli, Sacha Friedli, Friedli, S. +3 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0212015
29 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2002/12/02 · openalex publication_date 2002/12/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
At first order phase transition the free energy does not have an analytic continuation in the thermodynamical variable, which is conjugate to an order parameter for the transition. This result is proved at low temperature for lattice models with finite range interaction and two periodic ground-states, under the only condition that they verify Peierls condition.