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Discontinuous Phase Transitions In Condensed Matter: Symmetry Breaking In Bulk Martensite, Quasiperiodic And Low-dimensional Nanostructures (Hardcover)
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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.
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