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Publication
Physical Review A
Paper
Statistical mechanics of the XY model. I
Abstract
The Liouville equation for the XY model is solved exactly, and the magnetization is computed explicitly. Nonergodic behavior of the magnetization is found for a general class of time-dependent magnetic fields. © 1970 The American Physical Society.