Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 92 No. 3 (1994) pp. 687-691

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Mean-Field Analysis of Solidification

Koichi Takahashi

Department of Liberal Arts, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai 981-31

(Received May 9, 1994)

Abstract:

A renormalization group analysis within a zero-temperature mean-field theory is shown to provide a criterion of the onset of solidification under state-independent potentials with or without hard repulsive core.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/92/687/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.92.687

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Citing Article(s) :

Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 93 No. 6 (1995) pp. 987-1012 :
Mean-Field Theory of Fluid-Solid Transition of Fermion Systems

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Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 94 No. 3 (1995) pp. 463-467 :
Solidification Condition for Neutron Matter

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