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What is crossover?

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It is known that EW and QCD phase transitions in SM are so-called "crossovers". What is the difference between crossover and phase transition of the second kind?

This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2015-11-01 18:18 (UTC), posted by SE-user Name YYY

asked Jul 19, 2015 in Theoretical Physics by NAME_XXX (1,060 points) [ no revision ]

You may also find it interesting to look up the BEC-BCS crossover for clouds of cold interacting fermionic atoms.

This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2015-11-01 18:18 (UTC), posted by SE-user Emilio Pisanty

commented Jul 19, 2015 by Emilio Pisanty (520 points) [ no revision ]

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