Discontinuous Phase Transitions In Condensed Matter: Symmetry Breaking In Bulk Martensite, Quasiperiodic And Low-dimensional Nanostructures
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Aperiodic Structure
Author_Vladimir Dmitriev
Bilayer Graphene
Category=PHFC
Condensed Matter
Crystallization
Density Waves
Displacive Transformation
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Group Theory
Liquid-Solid Transition
Martensitic Transformation
Moire Pattern
Monoatomic Layer
Order-Disorder Transformation
Order-Parameter Space
Phase Transition
Phenomenological Theory
Polytypism
Quasicrystal
Reconstructive Phase Transition
Structural Transformation
Surface Reconstruction
Symmetry
Thermodynamics
Transition Order-Parameter
Virus Capsid
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- ISBN 9781800612914
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2023
- Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Discontinuous (first-order) phase transitions constitute the most fundamental and widespread type of structural transitions existing in Nature, forming a large majority of the transitions found in elemental crystals, alloys, inorganic compounds, minerals and complex fluids. Nevertheless, only a small part of them, namely, weakly discontinuous transformations, were considered by phenomenological theories, leaving aside the most interesting from a theoretical point of view and the most important for application cases. Discontinuous Phase Transitions in Condensed Matter introduces a density-wave approach to phase transitions which results in a unified, symmetry-based, model-free theory of the weak crystallization of molecular mixtures to liquid-crystalline mesophases, strongly discontinuous crystallization from molten metals and alloys to conventional, fully segregated crystals, to aperiodic, quasi-crystalline structures. Assembly of aperiodic closed virus capsids with non-crystallographic symmetry also falls into the domain of applicability of the density-wave approach.The book also considers the applicability domains of the symmetry-based approach in physics of low-dimensional systems. It includes comparisons of stability of different surface superstructures and metal monoatomic coverage structures on the surface of single-crystalline substrates. The example of the twisted graphene bilayer demonstrates how parametrization in the spirit of an advanced phenomenological approach can establish symmetry-controlled, and therefore model-free, links between geometrical parameters of the twisted bilayer structure and reconstruction of its Brillouin zone and energy bands.
