Phase transitions for beginners /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stishov, Sergei M
Published: World Scientific,
Publisher Address: Hackensack, NJ :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: viii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9789813274174
9813274174
Index Number: QC175
CLC: O414.2
Call Number: O414.2/S861
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Van der Waals model and critical phenomena -- 2.1.Van der Waals equation -- 2.2.Critical exponents -- 2.3.Critical temperature in the van der Waals model -- 3.Melting -- 3.1.Melting of hard spheres -- 3.2.Melting of soft spheres and real simple systems -- 3.3.Melting entropy -- 4.Step potential, quantum effects and "cold" melting -- 4.1."Collapsing" systems -- 4.2.Quantum effects and cold melting -- 5.The second order phase transitions and critical phenomena -- 5.1.Bragg-Williams Theory -- 5.2.Landau theory -- 5.2.1.Phase transition of the
Note continued: A.3.Soft modes -- A.4.Kadanoff transforms -- A.5.Renormalization group: basic concepts -- A.6.Fluctuations and phase transitions -- References -- A.7.Quantum phase transitions -- A.8.Phase transition in helical magnet MnSi -- A.8.1.Itinerant helimagnet MnSi.