Phases Of Matter And Their Transitions

Author : Gijsbertus de With
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527836925

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Phases of Matter and their Transitions by Gijsbertus de With Pdf

Phases of Matter and their Transitions An all-in-one, comprehensive take on matter and its phase properties In Phases of Matter and their Transitions, accomplished materials scientist Dr. Gijsbertus de With delivers an accessible textbook for advanced students in the molecular sciences. It offers a balanced and self-contained treatment of the thermodynamic and structural aspects of phases and the transitions between them, covering solids, liquids, gases, and their interfaces. The book lays the groundwork to describe particles and their interactions from the perspective of classical and quantum mechanics and compares phenomenological and statistical thermodynamics. It also examines materials with special properties, like glasses, liquid crystals, and ferroelectrics. The author has included an extensive appendix with a guide to the mathematics and theoretical models employed in this resource. Readers will also find: Thorough introductions to classical and quantum mechanics, intermolecular interactions, and continuum mechanics Comprehensive explorations of thermodynamics, gases, liquids, and solids Practical discussions of surfaces, including their general aspects for solids and liquids Fulsome treatments of discontinuous and continuous transitions, including discussions of irreversibility and the return to equilibrium Perfect for advanced students in chemistry and physics, Phases of Matter and their Transitions will also earn a place in the libraries of students of materials science.

Author : Pierre Papon,Jacques Leblond,Paul H.E. Meijer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662049891

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The Physics of Phase Transitions by Pierre Papon,Jacques Leblond,Paul H.E. Meijer Pdf

The Physics of Phase Transitions occupies an important place at the crossroads of several fields central to materials sciences. This second edition incorporates new developments in the states of matter physics, in particular in the domain of nanomaterials and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates where progress is accelerating. New information and application examples are included. This work deals with all classes of phase transitions in fluids and solids, containing chapters on evaporation, melting, solidification, magnetic transitions, critical phenomena, superconductivity, and more. End-of-chapter problems and complete answers are included.

Author : G Venkataraman
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8173710341

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Many Phases Of Matter by G Venkataraman Pdf

Author : V.V. Brazhkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1402008252

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New Kinds of Phase Transitions: Transformation in Disordered Substances by V.V. Brazhkin Pdf

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Volga River, Russia, 24-28 May 2001

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080538761

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Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena by Anonim Pdf

The field of phase transitions and critical phenomena continues to be active in research, producing a steady stream of interesting and fruitful results. It has moved into a central place in condensed matter studies.Statistical physics, and more specifically, the theory of transitions between states of matter, more or less defines what we know about 'everyday' matter and its transformations.The major aim of this serial is to provide review articles that can serve as standard references for research workers in the field, and for graduate students and others wishing to obtain reliable information on important recent developments.

Author : Stishov Sergei M
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813274198

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Phase Transitions For Beginners by Stishov Sergei M Pdf

Written by an experimentalist famous for his discovery of stishovite, with vast experience in phase transition studies, this book is devoted to a description of the continuous and discontinuous phase transitions. It includes chapters outlining the Van der Waals model, hard sphere and soft sphere models of melting, scaling phenomena, renormgroup approach to phase transitions, and experimental examples to illustrate various phase transitions.Unlike conventional books covering the same topic, this is meant for undergraduate students and experimentalists to understand basic concepts in the physics of phase transitions.

Author : Tormod Riste,David Sherrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461305514

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Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter by Tormod Riste,David Sherrington Pdf

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Geilo, Norway, between 4 - 14 April 1989. This Institute was the tenth in a series held at Geilo on the subject of phase transitions. It was the first to be concerned with the growing area of soft condensed matter, which is neither ordinary solids nor ordinary liquids, but somewhere in between. The Institute brought together many lecturers, students and active researchers in the field from a wide range of NATO and some non-NATO countries, with financial support principally from the NATO Scientific Affairs Division but also from Institutt for energiteknikk, the Nor wegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF), The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics (NORDITA), the Norwegian Physical Society and VISTA, a reserach cooperation between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s (STATOIL). The organizing committee would like to thank all these contributors for their help in promoting an exciting and rewarding meeting, and in doing so are confident that they echo the appreciation also of all the participants. 50ft condensed matter is characterized by weak interactions between polyatomic constituents, by important·thermal fluctuations effects, by mechanical softness and by a rich range of behaviours. The main emphasis at this Institute was on the fundamental collective physics, but prepar ation techniques and industrial applications were also considered.

Author : Hidetoshi Nishimori,Gerardo Ortiz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199577224

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Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena by Hidetoshi Nishimori,Gerardo Ortiz Pdf

As an introductory account of the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, this book reflects lectures given by the authors to graduate students at their departments and is thus classroom-tested to help beginners enter the field. Most parts are written as self-contained units and every new concept or calculation is explained in detail without assuming prior knowledge of the subject. The book significantly enhances and revises a Japanese version which is a bestseller in the Japanese market and is considered a standard textbook in the field. It contains new pedagogical presentations of field theory methods, including a chapter on conformal field theory, and various modern developments hard to find in a single textbook on phase transitions. Exercises are presented as the topics develop, with solutions found at the end of the book, making the text useful for self-teaching, as well as for classroom learning.

Author : Sanjay Puri,Vinod Wadhawan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420008364

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Kinetics of Phase Transitions by Sanjay Puri,Vinod Wadhawan Pdf

Providing a comprehensive introduction with the necessary background material to make it accessible for a wide scientific audience, Kinetics of Phase Transitions discusses developments in domain-growth kinetics. This book combines pedagogical chapters from leading experts in this area and focuses on incorporating various experimentally releva

Author : Vladimir P. Skripov,Mars Z. Faizullin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527405763

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Crystal-Liquid-Gas Phase Transitions and Thermodynamic Similarity by Vladimir P. Skripov,Mars Z. Faizullin Pdf

Professor Skripov obtained worldwide recognition with his monograph "Metastable liquids", published in English by Wiley & Sons. Based upon this work and another monograph published only in Russia, this book investigates the behavior of melting line and the properties of the coexisting crystal and liquid phase of simple substances across a wide range of pressures, including metastable states of the coexisting phases. The authors derive new relations for the thermodynamic similarity for liquid-vapour phase transition, as well as describing solid-liquid, liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid phase transitions for binary systems employing the novel methodology of thermodynamic similarity.

Author : Marc Baus,L.F Rull,Jean-Paul Ryckaert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401100656

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Observation, Prediction and Simulation of Phase Transitions in Complex Fluids by Marc Baus,L.F Rull,Jean-Paul Ryckaert Pdf

Observation, Prediction and Simulation of Phase Transitions in Complex Fluids presents an overview of the phase transitions that occur in a variety of soft-matter systems: colloidal suspensions of spherical or rod-like particles and their mixtures, directed polymers and polymer blends, colloid--polymer mixtures, and liquid-forming mesogens. This modern and fascinating branch of condensed matter physics is presented from three complementary viewpoints. The first section, written by experimentalists, emphasises the observation of basic phenomena (by light scattering, for example). The second section, written by theoreticians, focuses on the necessary theoretical tools (density functional theory, path integrals, free energy expansions). The third section is devoted to the results of modern simulation techniques (Gibbs ensemble, free energy calculations, configurational bias Monte Carlo). The interplay between the disciplines is clearly illustrated. For all those interested in modern research in equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Author : M. Baus,Carlos F. Tejero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540746324

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Equilibrium Statistical Physics by M. Baus,Carlos F. Tejero Pdf

This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of matter and to the phase transitions between them. Throughout, only simple models of both ordinary and soft matter are used but these are studied in full detail. The subject is developed in a pedagogical manner, starting from the basics, going from the simple ideal systems to the interacting systems, and ending with the more modern topics. The textbook provides the student with a complete overview, intentionally at an introductory level, of the theory of phase transitions. All equations and deductions are included.

Author : Subir Sachdev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521004543

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Quantum Phase Transitions by Subir Sachdev Pdf

Quantum Phase Transitions is the first book to describe in detail the fundamental changes that can occur in the macroscopic nature of matter at zero temperature due to small variations in a given external parameter. The subject plays a central role in the study of the electrical and magnetic properties of numerous important solid state materials. The author begins by developing the theory of quantum phase transitions in the simplest possible class of non-disordered, interacting systems - the quantum Ising and rotor models. Particular attention is paid to their non-zero temperature dynamic and transport properties in the vicinity of the quantum critical point. Several other quantum phase transitions of increasing complexity are then discussed and clarified. Throughout, the author interweaves experimental results with presentation of theoretical models, and well over 500 references are included. The book will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

Author : T. Riste,David Sherrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401119085

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Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales by T. Riste,David Sherrington Pdf

Systems with competing energy scales are widespread and exhibit rich and subtle behaviour, although their systematic study is a relatively recent activity. This text presents lectures given at a NATO Advanced Study Institute reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject, particularly with regard to phase transitions and dynamics, at an advanced tutorial level. Both general and specific aspects are considered, with competitions having several origins; differences in intrinsic interactions, interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic effects, such as geometry and disorder; irreversibility and non-equilibration. Among the specific physical application areas are supercooled liquids and glasses, high-temperature superconductors, flux or vortex pinning and motion, charge density waves, domain growth and coarsening, and electron solidification.

Author : Moshe Gitterman
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814520621

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Phase Transitions by Moshe Gitterman Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive review of the theory of phase transitions and its modern applications, based on the five pillars of the modern theory of phase transitions: the Ising model, mean field, scaling, renormalization group and universality. This expanded second edition includes, along with a description of vortices and high temperature superconductivity, a discussion of phase transitions in chemical reactions and moving systems. The book covers the close connection between phase transitions and small world phenomena as well as scale-free systems such as the stock market and the Internet.