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1.1 What Is This Book About? |
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1.2 Who Is This Book For? |
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2 Landau Theory of Phase Transitions |
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2.1 A Phase and Phase Transition |
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2.2 Phase Transition as Symmetry Change: the Order Parameter |
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2.3 Phase Transition as a Catastrophe: the Free Energy |
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2.4 Ehrenfest Classification |
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19 | (3) |
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2.5 The Tangential Potential |
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22 | (5) |
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2.6 Phase Diagrams and Measurable Quantities |
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27 | (3) |
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2.6.1 First-Order Transitions |
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2.6.2 Second-Order Transitions |
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28 | (2) |
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2.7 Effect of External Field on Phase Transition |
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30 | (5) |
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35 | (2) |
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3 Heterogeneous Equilibrium Systems |
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3.1 Theory of Capillarity |
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42 | (4) |
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3.4 One-Dimensional Equilibrium States |
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3.4.1 Classification of the States |
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3.4.2 Type-e1 Solutions: Bifurcation Off the Transition State |
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57 | (2) |
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3.4.3 Type-e3 Solutions: Approach to Thermodynamic Limit |
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3.4.4 Type-e4 Solution: Plane Interface |
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3.4.5 Interfacial Properties: Gibbs Adsorption Equation |
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3.4.6 Type-n4 Solution: Critical Plate---Instanton |
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3.5 Free Energy Landscape |
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67 | (3) |
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3.6 Multidimensional Equilibrium States |
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3.6.1 Quasi One-Dimensional States: Drumhead (Sharp Interface) Approximation |
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3.6.2 Critical Droplet: 3d Spherically Symmetric Instanton |
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3.6.3 Small Deviations from Homogeneous Equilibrium States: Fourier. Method |
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3.7 Thermodynamic Stability of States: Local Versus Global |
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3.7.1 Type-e4 State: Plane Interface |
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3.7.2 General Type-e and Type-n States |
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3.7.3 3d Spherically Symmetric Instanton |
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3.8 Gradients of Conjugate Fields |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (1) |
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4 Dynamics of Homogeneous Systems |
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4.1 Evolution Equation: The Linear Ansatz |
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91 | (3) |
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4.2 Solutions of the Linear-Ansatz Dynamic Equation |
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4.2.1 Evolution of Small Disturbances |
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4.2.2 Critical Slowing Down |
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4.2.3 Nonlinear Evolution |
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4.2.4 More Complicated Types of OPs |
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4.3 Beyond the Linear Ansatz |
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4.4 Relaxation with Memory |
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5 Evolution of Heterogeneous Systems |
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5.1 Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Evolution Equation |
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5.2 Motion of Plane Interfaces |
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5.3 Dynamic Stability of Equilibrium States |
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5.3.1 Homogeneous Equilibrium States |
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5.3.2 Heterogeneous Equilibrium States |
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110 | (1) |
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5.3.3 Morphological Stability of Moving Plane Interface |
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111 | (1) |
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5.4 Motion of Curved Interfaces: Drumhead (Sharp Interface) Approximation |
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112 | (4) |
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5.4.1 Nonequilibrium Interface Energy |
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114 | (1) |
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5.4.2 Evolution of a Spherical Droplet |
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5.5 Domain Growth Dynamics |
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6 Thermomechanical Analogy |
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121 | (6) |
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126 | (1) |
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7 Thermodynamic Fluctuations |
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7.1 Classical Nucleation Theory |
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128 | (2) |
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7.2 Free Energy of Equilibrium System with Fluctuations |
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130 | (5) |
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7.3 Levanyuk-Ginzburg Criterion |
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135 | (1) |
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7.4 Dynamics of Fluctuating Systems: Langevin Force |
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7.5 Evolution of the Structure Factor |
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7.6 Drumhead Approximation of the Evolution Equation |
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7.6.1 Evolution of the Interfacial Structure Factor |
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7.6.2 Nucleation in the Drumhead Approximation |
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147 | (3) |
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8 More Complicated Systems |
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8.1 Conservative Order Parameter: Theory of Spinodal Decomposition |
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151 | (17) |
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8.1.1 Thermodynamic Equilibrium in a Binary System |
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151 | (6) |
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8.1.2 Equilibrium in Inhomogeneous Systems |
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157 | (2) |
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8.1.3 Dynamics of Decomposition in Binary Systems |
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159 | (3) |
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8.1.4 Evolution of Small Disturbances |
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162 | (3) |
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8.1.5 Role of Fluctuations |
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8.2 Complex Order Parameter: Ginzburg-Landau's Theory of Superconductivity |
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8.2.1 Order Parameter and Free Energy |
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168 | (3) |
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8.2.2 Equilibrium Equations |
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171 | (4) |
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8.2.3 Surface Tension of the Superconducting/Normal Phase Interface |
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175 | (3) |
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8.3 Multicomponent Order Parameter: Crystallographic Phase Transitions |
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8.3.1 Invariance to Symmetry Group |
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8.3.2 Inhomogeneous Variations |
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8.4 Memory Effects: Non-Markovian Systems |
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8.5 "Mechanical" Order Parameter |
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9 Thermal Effects of Phase Transformations |
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9.1 Equilibrium States of a Closed (Adiabatic) System |
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202 | (13) |
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202 | (8) |
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210 | (5) |
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9.2 Generalized Heat Equation |
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9.3 Emergence of a New Phase |
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220 | (5) |
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9.4 Motion of Interfaces: Non-isothermal Drumhead (Sharp Interface) Approximation |
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9.4.1 Generalized Stefan Heat-Balance Equation |
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9.4.2 Generalized Kinetic Equation |
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9.4.4 Interphase Boundary Motion: Heat Trapping |
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9.4.5 APB Motion: Thermal Drag |
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9.5 Length and Energy Scales |
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240 | (4) |
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9.6.1 One-Dimensional Transformation |
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9.6.2 Two-Dimensional Transformation |
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10 Transformations in Real Materials |
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245 | (4) |
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10.2 Boundaries of Applicability of the Method |
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247 | (2) |
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11 Extensions of the Method |
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249 | (12) |
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11.1 Cellular Automata Method: "Poor Man's Phase Field" |
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249 | (5) |
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11.2 Continuum Models of Grain Growth |
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254 | (5) |
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11.2.1 Multiphase Field Models |
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255 | (2) |
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11.2.2 Orientational Order Parameter Field Models |
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257 | (1) |
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11.2.3 Phase-Field Crystal |
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258 | (1) |
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11.3 Epilogue: Challenges and Future Prospects |
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259 | (1) |
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Appendix A Coarse-Graining Procedure |
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261 | (6) |
Appendix B Calculus of Variations and Functional Derivative |
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267 | (6) |
Appendix C Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates |
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273 | (6) |
Appendix D Lagrangian Field Theory |
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279 | (6) |
Appendix E Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues of the Schrodinger Equation and Sturm's Comparison Theorem |
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285 | (6) |
Appendix F Fourier and Legendre Transforms |
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291 | (6) |
Appendix G Stochastic Processes |
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297 | (18) |
Appendix H Two-phase Equilibrium in a Closed Binary System |
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315 | (4) |
Appendix I The Stefan Problem |
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319 | (6) |
Appendix J On the Theory of Adsorption of Sound in Liquids |
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Index |
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