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Under intuitively reasonable assumptions it is shown that in two dimensions different phases cannot exist locally. In three dimensions we discuss the possibility of local coexistence of districts with different magnetization for the Heisenberg ferromagnet and show that an interaction that breaks rotational invariance is necessary for this phenomenon.
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Narnhofer, H. Local coexistence of different phases. J Stat Phys 29, 761–771 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01011789
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