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The 13 pages that link to Critical phenomena, each with the reason it gives.

• Spontaneous symmetry breakingRelated: Near a symmetry-breaking transition, fluctuations can dominate and produce universal behavior.

• Renormalization groupNarrower topic: Explaining critical phenomena was a principal impetus for Wilson’s formulation.

• Ising modelNarrower topic: The model provides a tractable setting for studying universal critical behavior.

• RenormalizationRelated: Renormalization predicts critical exponents and explains their independence from many microscopic details.

• Thermodynamic limitRelated: Diverging correlation lengths and sharp critical behavior are defined in the infinite-system limit.

• Correlation functionRelated: Correlation functions expose the scale-free fluctuations and critical exponents near a transition.

• Thermal fluctuationsRelated: Fluctuations become unusually large near critical points and shape transition behavior.

• Conformal field theoryNarrower topic: Scale invariance at critical points often allows their long-distance physics to be described by conformal theories.

• Curie–Weiss law (magnetism)Related: Near a real transition, critical fluctuations can invalidate the law’s simple prediction.

• Kenneth G. WilsonNarrower topic: This was the central physical problem Wilson’s methods brought under quantitative control.

• Fluctuations and noiseRelated: Growing fluctuations signal the approach to a critical point.

• Hopkinson effectNarrower topic: The sharp temperature dependence is tied to behavior near a magnetic phase transition.

• Pierre-Gilles de GennesRelated: Ideas from critical phenomena helped de Gennes analyze ordering in liquid crystals.