Necessary and sufficient condition for a disorder-broadened transition to be identified as 1st order

Abstract

Disorder-broadened 1st order transitions may not carry the experimental signature of a latent heat. We discuss what experimental observation can provide a necessary and sufficient condition for characterizing this phase transition as 1st order.

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