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Il Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. B/Il Nuovo cimento B

Application of Landau’s theory of second-order phase transition to systems with two order parameters

H. H. Chen

Published Sep 1, 1978• 5 citations
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10.1007/bf02721017

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