Continentino, Mucio A; Ferreira, André S - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 339 (2004) 3, pp. 461-468
The scaling theory of critical phenomena has been successfully extended for classical first-order transitions even though the correlation length does not diverge in these transitions. In this paper, we apply the scaling ideas to quantum first-order transitions. The usefulness of this approach is...