Effective Field Approach to Phase Transitions and Some Applications to Ferroelectrics

von Julio A Gonzalo

236 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The first half of the book presents the effective field approach, which is certainly the simplest approach to investigate cooperative phenomena and the accompanying phase transitions. It provides a common, intuitive approximation to the physics of such diverse phenomena as liquid-vapor transitions, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, order-disorder in alloys, ferroelectricity, superfluidity and ferroelasticity. The connection between the effective field approach and Landau's phenomenological theory is stressed. The latter half is devoted to some specific applications of the effective field concept to ferroelectric systems.

• ISBN: 9789810203245
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.1991
• Größe: 220 x 152 mm
• Verlag: World Scientific Publishing Company