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Discontinuous Phase Transitions in Condensed Matter

Discontinuous Phase Transitions in Condensed Matter

Dmitriev Vladimir

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringPhysics

ISBN10: 1800612915
ISBN13: 9781800612914
Publisher: Wspc (Europe)
Published: Feb 10 2023
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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