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What do dynamics look like in systems without stable states?
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Scale invariance and phase transitions #48

Closed MKLau closed 8 years ago

MKLau commented 10 years ago

This is a quote from Wikipedia. Trace the references for this statement.

"In statistical mechanics, scale invariance is a feature of phase transitions. The key observation is that near a phase transition or critical point, fluctuations occur at all length scales, and thus one should look for an explicitly scale-invariant theory to describe the phenomena. Such theories are scale-invariant statistical field theories, and are formally very similar to scale-invariant quantum field theories."