Abstract
We discuss the meaning of Zipf's law in nuclear multifragmentation. We remark that Zipf's law is a consequence of a power-law fragment size distribution with exponent . We also recall why the presence of such a distribution is not a reliable signal of a liquid-gas phase transition.
- Received 22 August 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.057602
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