Phys. Rev. C 72, 057602 (2005) [3 pages]Zipf's law in multifragmentationReceived 22 August 2005; published 30 November 2005 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 τ≃2. We also recall why the presence of such a distribution is not a reliable signal of a liquid-gas phase transition. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.057602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.72.057602
PACS:
25.70.Pq, 05.70.Jk, 64.60.Ak
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