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Zipf's law in Multifragmentation

Xavier Campi, Hubert Krivine

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0508541

Abstract

We discuss the meaning of Zipf's law in nuclear multifragmentation. We remark that Zipf's law is a consequence of a power law fragment size distribution with exponent τ 2. We also recall why the presence of such distribution is not a reliable signal of a liquid-gas phase transition.

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