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RECONSTRUCTIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS
In Crystals and Quasicrystals
by Pierre Tolédano (Univ. Amiens, France) & Vladimir Dmitriev (Univ. Rostov on the Don, Russia)
This book deals with the phenomenological theory of first-order structural phase transitions, with a special emphasis on reconstructive transformations in which a group-subgroup relationship between the symmetries of the phases is absent. It starts with a unified presentation of the current approach to first-order phase transitions, using the more recent results of the Landau theory of phase transitions and of the theory of singularities. A general theory of reconstructive phase transitions is then formulated, in which the structures surrounding a transition are expressed in terms of density-waves, providing a natural definition of the transition order-parameters, and a description of the corresponding phase diagrams and relevant physical properties. The applicability of the theory is illustrated by a large number of concrete examples pertaining to the various classes of reconstructive transitions: allotropic transformations of the elements, displacive and order-disorder transformations in metals, alloys and related structures, crystal-quasicrystal transformations.
Contents:
- Phenomenological Theory of First-Order Phase Transitions
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Density-Wave Theory of Reconstructive Phase Transitions
- Displacive Reconstructive Phase Transitions
- Ordering Type Reconstructive Phase Transitions
- Crystal-Quasicrystal Reconstructive Phase Transitions
- Group-Theoretical Aspects of the Phenomenological Theory of Structural Phase Transitions
Readership: Condensed matter and materials science physicists and chemists.
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Pub. date: Sept 1996 |
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