{"product_id":"discontinuous-phase-transitions-in-condensed-matter-symmetry-breaking-in-bulk-martensite-quasiperiodic-and-low-dimensional-nanostructures-9781800612914","title":"Discontinuous Phase Transitions In Condensed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscontinuous (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.","brand":"World Scientific Europe Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042726510935,"sku":"9781800612914","price":130.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800612914.jpg?v=1750955360","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discontinuous-phase-transitions-in-condensed-matter-symmetry-breaking-in-bulk-martensite-quasiperiodic-and-low-dimensional-nanostructures-9781800612914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}