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cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 35 cited
Phase transitions induced by saddle points of vanishing curvature
Michael Kastner, Oliver Schnetz
Based on the study of saddle points of the potential energy landscapes of generic classical many-particle systems, we present a necessary criterion for the occurrence of a thermody…
cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 129 cited
Phase transitions and configuration space topology
Michael Kastner
Equilibrium phase transitions may be defined as nonanalytic points of thermodynamic functions, e.g., of the canonical free energy. Given a certain physical system, it is of interes…
cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 66 cited
Partial equivalence of statistical ensembles and kinetic energy
Lapo Casetti, Michael Kastner
The phenomenon of partial equivalence of statistical ensembles is illustrated by discussing two examples, the mean-field XY and the mean-field spherical model. The configurational…