Yukalov, V.I. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 261 (1998) 3, pp. 482-498
The occurrence of mesoscopic fluctuations in statistical systems implies, from the point of view of dynamical theory, the existence of local instabilities. However, the presence of such fluctuations can make a system, as a whole, more stable from the thermodynamic point of view. Thus, in many...