Antoni Planes, Avadh Saxena

Phase Transitions

A Materials Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an introduction to the theory of phase transitions, bridging the gap between physics and materials science. With exercises included throughout and solutions available online, this text is suitable for graduate courses as well as researchers seeking a primer on popular and emerging research topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009549752
• ISBN-10: 1009549758
• Artikelnr.: 73331434

Autorenporträt

Avadh Saxena is Senior Scientist and former Group Leader of the Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). His research interests include phase transitions, non-linear science, topological defects and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of LANL and an external member of The Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. General Aspects: 1. Introduction to phase transitions
2. Dynamics of phase transitions
Part II. Applications: 3. Ferroic materials
4. Coupling of ferroic degrees of freedom: multiferroics
5. Caloric and multicaloric materials
6. Liquid crystals and topological defects
7. Glassy phenomena in materials with disorder
8. Non-equilibrium phase transitions
9. Superconductors
10. Quantum phase transitions
Appendix. Landau theory and symmetry.