The Critical phenomena reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Critical phenomena

Critical phenomena occur at the critical point. Often the words "critical phenomena" are also used for any condensed matter systems with an infinite correlation length. Most important critical phenomena include universality, scaling, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and topological orders.

See also second order phase transition.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This is the "Critical phenomena" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.