The physics of structural phase transitions.
This is a compact and rather consistent treatise of the Physics of Structural Phase Transitions (PSPT). Since the presentation is based on a very transparent pseudospin condensate approach and on the Landau mean-field theory, this book is accessible to students at under-graduate and post-graduate levels. It is divided into two parts. The first part of the book includes some basic concepts and contains 5 chapters. There the author used essentially the pseudospin approach to give a panorama of the PSPT including the concepts of Collective Modes (Ch.3), Soft Modes (Ch.4), Pseudospin (nonlinear) Dynamics and the Long-Range Order (Ch.5). This part is free of any perturbative approaches, of diagram or the Green function technique. Therefore, the reader have to consult the references to learn some of well-known and useful concepts like, e.g., the self-consistent phonons, or the quantum phase transitions related to the PSPT. Apart of [10] and [11] one has to mention for example, [\textit{J. Brankov} et al., Theory of Critical Phenomena in Finite-Size Systems. Series in Modern Condensed Matter Physics. 9. (Singapore: World Scientific). (2000; Zbl 0967.82002)]. The second part of the book presents the experimental studies. It also contains 5 chapters dedicated to discussion of such important tools as X-ray Diffraction and Neutron Scattering (Ch.6), Light Scattering (Ch.7), Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (Ch.8), Nuclear Spin Relaxation Studies (Ch.9) as well as the Structural Phase Transitions in Miscellaneous Systems (Ch.10). Again a laconic style of the book did not allow the author to discuss in more details such a fundamental tool in the PSPT as the inelastic neutron scattering, see e.g. [\textit{V. L. Aksenov} et al., ``Neutron Scattering by Ferroelectrics, World Scientific, (1989)].
- Phase transitions of simple systems.
- The physics of structural phase transitions
- Neutron scattering in condensed matter physics.
- Solitons in crystalline processes. Statistical thermodynamics of structural phase transitions and mesoscopic disorder
- Phase transitions for the geodesic flow of a rank one surface with nonpositive curvature
- Some perspectives on (non)local phase transitions and minimal surfaces
- Discontinuous phase transitions in condensed matter. Symmetry breaking in bulk martensite, quasiperiodic and low-dimensional nanostructures
- Conducting viscous bodies with phase transitions: deriving Gurtin's postulate from the second law structure invariance
This page was built for publication: The physics of structural phase transitions.
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5698830)
