Vakarin, E.V.; Dong, W.; Badiali, J.P. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 424 (2015) C, pp. 294-299
Effects of the averaging over disorder realizations (samples) on the phase behavior are analyzed in terms of the mean … temperature of a second-order phase transition or, depending on the sampling, even suppresses the ordered phase. Possible first … order transitions are shown to be softened by the sample averaging. Common issues and differences in the interpretation of …