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Phase Diagrams for Incommensurate Systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
Abstract
Phase diagrams, for systems undergoing one or several incommensurate and lock-in transitions, are discussed in the framework of the Landau theory of phase transitions. It is shown that their essential features can be deduced from the explicit forms of the free-energy density ø and the k-dispersion of the coefficient α(→k)of the quadratic contribution of the order-parameter components in ø. Two families of phase diagrams are distinguished depending on symmetry considerations.
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