id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt n583xs59292 Benjamin Stortenbecker The Entropic Concavity Framework: A Universal Formulation for Understanding Phase Transitions 2022 .txt text/plain 156 4 25 Being a universal description, it can be applied to systems from both traditional physics, such as of interacting particles of arbitrary composition and interaction ranges, and more general systems of interconnected variables, e.g. networks, combinatorial structures, biological systems, etc. We present several examples such as the two-star model, Strauss' cluster model of transitive networks, gelation in random graphs (Erdös–Rényi), magnetic spin models with short range interactions such as the Ising model, the Blume--Emery--Griffiths model, which is characterized by long-range interactions and finally, the Van der Waals gas as a model system with continuous variables. cache/n583xs59292.txt txt/n583xs59292.txt