The authors have focussed attention on a number of concepts widely used by research workers but needing clarification and more careful definition, like metastable states, clusters, supercooling, spinodal decomposition. The material in this article is of great significance to all who are interested in phase transitions, but it has not in the past been given the attention it deserves. Since the authors have successfully undertaken the huge task of covering the relevant literature and describing its content concisely and coherently, this defect may perhaps be remedided in the near future.
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symmetric exclusion process, maximal current phase, left boundary density, stationary density profile, minimal current phase, cubic fixed point, saturated nest, crumpling transition, crumpled manifolds, quantum algebra symmetry, rooted nest, driven lattice gases, finite part prescription, polymerized membranes, tubular phase, tethered membranes, crumpled phase, renormalization group functions, lowest energy gap, matrix ansatz, relaxational behaviour, extrapolation variables, stochastic time evolution, perturbative renormalizability, infinite membranes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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