Reconstructive Phase Transitions: In Crystals And Quasicrystals
€141.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9789810223649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre (.) Toledano |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Publishing Date | 01/09/1996 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €133.87 |
| Tax | €8.03 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €141.90 |
| Availability | 1 unit in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.