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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.Antoni Planes is Emeritus Professor of Department of Physics of Condensed Matter at the University of Barcelona. His research interests include the study of phase transitions in materials with multiple coupled degrees of freedom, precursor phenomena, avalanche criticality and caloric effects. He is a fellow of the APS and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona.
