Reconstructive Phase Transitions: In Crystals and Quasicrystals

✍ Scribed by Pierre Tolédano, Vladimir Dmitriev

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Dedications
Foreword
Contents
I. PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS
1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts of the Landau theory of phase transitions
3. The angular and radial problems in the Landau theory of structural transitions
4. Symmetry predicted first-order phase transitions
5. Theory of singularities and phase transitions
6. References
II. DENSITY-WAVE THEORY OF RECONSTRUCTIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS
1. Introduction
2. Introductory examples to the density-wave approach
3. Generalization of the preceding examples: Density-wave theory of reconstructive phase transitions
4. Specific properties of reconstructive phase transitions
5. Applicability of the density-wave theory of reconstructive phase transitions
6. References
III. DISPLACIVE RECONSTRUCTIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS
1. Introduction
2. The β–ω transition
3. The BCC-HCP transition: The role of macroscopic deformation
4. The BCC-FCC transition
5. Landau and limit phases in the phase diagrams of actinides
6. Reconstructive phase transitions in inorganic crystals
7. The martensitic transformations in lithium and sodium
8. References
IV. ORDERING TYPE RECONSTRUCTIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS
1. Introduction
2. The FCC-HCP reconstructive transition
3. Polytypic structures in zinc sulfide and barium titanate
4. The graphite-diamond reconstructive transition
5. Theory of ice structures
6. Reconstructive transitions in Si0₂
7. Ordering-type and displacive-type mechanisms in lanthanides
8. Reconstructive phase transitions in a cryogenic crystal: Nitrogen
9. References
V. CRYSTAL-QUASICRYSTAL RECONSTRUCTIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS
1. Introduction
2. The crystal-quasicrystal transition mechanism
3. Density-wave theory of the FCC-icosahedral transitions in FeTi₂ (NiTi₂) alloys
4. The rhombohedral-icosahedral transition in AlCuFe alloys
5. Local structural mechanism for crystal-quasicrystal transitions: The T-lattice
6. Domain structure and microcrystalline states in quasicrystals
7. References
APPENDEX 1. GROUP-THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS
1. Crystallographic space-groups
2. Irreducible representations of the space-groups
3. Group theoretical properties used in the formulation of the Landau theory
4. References
Subject Index