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Assuming a continuous dependence of the criticality on the energy parameters, it is conjectured that the Ashkin-Teller model has in general two phase transitions. The two critical points coalesce into a single one when the two middle energies in the model are degenerate.
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Wu et al. (1974) studied this question.
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