 Mean-field critical exponent (source code)

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= Mean-field critical exponent

For an ordinary quartic Landau transition, the heat-capacity and order-parameter exponents are $\alpha=0$ and $\beta=1/2$. At a tricritical sextic point they are $\alpha=1/2$ and $\beta=1/4$.

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