Structural Phase Transitions Ii

Author : K. Alex Müller,Harry Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
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Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662101131

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Structural Phase Transitions II by K. Alex Müller,Harry Thomas Pdf

Structural Phase Transitions II, like its predecessor (Topics in Current Physics, Vol. 23), presents selected methods and recent advances in the experimental investigation of phase transitions in solids. The two chapters in this volume deal with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and with nuclear magnetic and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NMR-NQR). Both techniques are particularly sensitive to local properties. The chapter on EPR concentrates largely on the investigation of static properties, including mean-field behaviour, critical and multicritical phenomena, whilst NMR is shown to be a powerful tool for studying nonlinear dynamics, incommensurate transitions, and disordered systems. This book will serve as an excellent introduction to the methodology and applications of EPR and NMR-NQR for all those wishing to become acquainted with these important tools for studying structural phase transitions.

Author : Minoru Fujimoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475727258

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The Physics of Structural Phase Transitions by Minoru Fujimoto Pdf

Intended for readers with some prior knowledge of condensed-matter physics, this text emphasises the basic physics behind spontaneous structural changes in crystals. Starting with the relevant thermodynamic principles, the author discusses the nature of order variables and their collective motion in a crystal lattice. He also goes on to describe experimental methods for modulated crystal structures and gives examples of structural changes in representative systems. Both a graduate text and reference work.

Author : A. D. Bruce,R. A. Cowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:471537367

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Structural Phase Transitions by A. D. Bruce,R. A. Cowley Pdf

Author : K. Alex Müller,Harry Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540522387

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Structural Phase Transitions II by K. Alex Müller,Harry Thomas Pdf

Structural Phase Transitions II, like its predecessor (Topics in Current Physics, Vol. 23), presents selected methods and recent advances in the experimental investigation of phase transitions in solids. The two chapters in this volume deal with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and with nuclear magnetic and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NMR-NQR). Both techniques are particularly sensitive to local properties. The chapter on EPR concentrates largely on the investigation of static properties, including mean-field behaviour, critical and multicritical phenomena, whilst NMR is shown to be a powerful tool for studying nonlinear dynamics, incommensurate transitions, and disordered systems. This book will serve as an excellent introduction to the methodology and applications of EPR and NMR-NQR for all those wishing to become acquainted with these important tools for studying structural phase transitions.

Author : K. Motizuki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400945760

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Structural Phase Transitions in Layered Transition Metal Compounds by K. Motizuki Pdf

The structural phase transition is one of the most fundamental problems in solid state physics. Layered transition-metal dichalcogenides provide us with a most exciting area for the study of structural phase transitions that are associated with the charge density wave (CDW). A large variety of structural phase transitions, such as commensurate and incommensurate transitions, and the physical proper ties related to the formation of a CDW, have been an object of intense study made for many years by methods employing modem microscopic techniques. Rather recently, efforts have been devoted to the theoretical understanding of these experimental results. Thus, McMillan, for example, has developed an elegant phenomenological theory on the basis of the Landau free energy expansion. An extension of McMillan's theory has provided a successful understanding of the successive phase transitions observed in the IT- and 2H-compounds. In addition, a microscopic theory of lattice instability, lattice dynamics, and lattice distortion in the CDW state of the transition-metal dichalcogenides has been developed based on their electronic structures. As a result, the driving force of the CDW formation in the IT- and 2H-compounds has become clear. Furthermore, the effect of lattice fluctuations on the CDW transition and on the anomalous behavior of various physical properties has been made clear microscopically.

Author : K.A. Müller,H. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642815317

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Structural Phase Transitions I by K.A. Müller,H. Thomas Pdf

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Author : A. D. Bruce,R. A. Cowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Crystallography
ISBN : UCSD:31822010127975

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Structural Phase Transitions by A. D. Bruce,R. A. Cowley Pdf

Author : A. P. Levani︠u︡k,A. S. Sigov
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Science Pub
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN : 2881240674

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Defects and Structural Phase Transitions by A. P. Levani︠u︡k,A. S. Sigov Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:834197327

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Structural phase transitions by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. K. Salje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521429366

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Phase Transitions in Ferroelastic and Co-elastic Crystals by E. K. Salje Pdf

This textbook describes the fundamental principles of structural phase transitions in materials in an easily understandable form, suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Author : Yu.V. Kopaev,W. Hanke
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444600394

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Electronic Phase Transitions by Yu.V. Kopaev,W. Hanke Pdf

Electronic Phase Transitions deals with topics, which are presently at the forefront of scientific research in modern solid-state theory. Anderson localization, which has fundamental implications in many areas of solid-state physics as well as spin glasses, with its influence on quite different research activities such as neural networks, are two examples that are reviewed in this book. The ab initio statistical mechanics of structural phase transitions is another prime example, where the interplay and connection of two unrelated disciplines of solid-state theory - first principle electronic structure calculations and critical phenomena - has given rise to impressive new insights. Clearly, there is more and more need for accurate, stable numerical simulations of models of interacting electrons, presently discussed with great vigor in connection with high-Tc superconductors where the superconducting transition is close to a magnetic transition, i.e. an antiferromagnetic spin structure. These topics and others are discussed and reviewed by leading experts in the field.

Author : KA Muller (ed)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:985777311

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Structural Phase Transitions I (Volume 23). by KA Muller (ed) Pdf

Author : Pierre Tol‚dano,Vladimir Dmitriev
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810223641

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Reconstructive Phase Transitions by Pierre Tol‚dano,Vladimir Dmitriev Pdf

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.

Author : S. Ghose,J.M.D. Coey,E. Salje
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822002410173

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Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Minerals by S. Ghose,J.M.D. Coey,E. Salje Pdf

This volume in Advances in Physical Geochemistry presents the latest synthesis of theory and experimental data pertaining to structural and magnetic phase transitions in a variety of geochemically important minerals. The book is the first to cover the impact of this rapidly progressing area of solid state physics in earth sciences and reflects its growing significance for mineralogy and petrology.

Author : Gerald H. Pollack,Wei-Chun Chin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402086519

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Phase Transitions in Cell Biology by Gerald H. Pollack,Wei-Chun Chin Pdf

Phase transitions occur throughout nature. The most familiar example is the one that occurs in water – the abrupt, discontinuous transition from a liquid to a gas or a solid, induced by a subtle environmental change. Practically magical, the ever-so-slight shift of temperature or pressure can induce an astonishing transition from one entity to another entity that bears little resemblance to the first. So "convenient" a feature is seen throughout the domains of physics and chemistry, and one is therefore led to wonder whether it might also be common to biology. Indeed, many of the most fundamental cellular processes are arguably attributable to radical structural shifts triggered by subtle changes that cross a critical threshold. These processes include transport, motion, signaling, division, and other fundamental aspects of cellular function. Largely on the basis of this radical concept, a symposium was organized in Poitiers, France, to bring together people who have additional evidence for the role of phase transitions in biology, and this book is a compendium of some of the more far-reaching of those presentations, as well as several others that seemed to the editors to be compelling. The book should be suitable for anyone interested in the nature of biological function, particularly those who tire of lumbering along well trodden pathways of pursuit, and are eager to hear something fresh. The book is replete with fresh interpretations of familiar phenomena, and should serve as an excellent gateway to deeper understanding.