{"product_id":"reconstructive-phase-transitions-in-crystals-and-quasicrystals-9789810223649","title":"Reconstructive Phase Transitions: In Crystals and Quasicrystals","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vladimir Dmitriev | Pierre Toledano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Physics - Condensed Matter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892444971159,"sku":"9789810223649","price":15297.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789810223649.webp?v=1781187017","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reconstructive-phase-transitions-in-crystals-and-quasicrystals-9789810223649","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}