Reconstructive Phase Transitions: In Crystals And Quasicrystals
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A01=Pierre Toledano
A01=Vladimir Dmitriev
Author_Pierre Toledano
Author_Vladimir Dmitriev
Category=PHFC
Category=PNT
Crystallographic Aspects Of Phase Transformations
Displacive Transformations
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First-Order Phase Transitions
Group-Theoretical Methods
Order-Disorder Transformations
Phase Diagrams
Phenomenological Theory
Reconstructive Phase Transitions
Transition Order Parameter
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- ISBN 9789810223649
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1996
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
