KnowraCritical phenomenaLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Critical phenomena, each with the reason it gives.All 13Related 8Narrower topic 5Spontaneous symmetry breakingRelated: Near a symmetry-breaking transition, fluctuations can dominate and produce universal 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.Curie–Weiss law (magnetism)Related: Near a real transition, critical fluctuations can invalidate the law’s simple prediction.Fluctuations and noiseRelated: Growing fluctuations signal the approach to a critical point.Pierre-Gilles de GennesRelated: Ideas from critical phenomena helped de Gennes analyze ordering in liquid crystals.