Robledo, A.; Quintana, J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 257 (1998) 1, pp. 197-206
We survey a collection of statistical-mechanical problems involving systems inhomogeneous (only) in one spatial direction and seldom discussed by way of a unified treatment. We employ a Landau density functional approach and present the analysis with the help of the equivalent nonlinear...