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Multicritical Phenomena

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Editors:
  1. R. Pynn

    1. Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

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  2. A. Skjeltorp

    1. Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 106)

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Multicriticality: A Theoretical Introduction

    • Michael E. Fisher
    Pages 1-5

  3. Partial Differential Approximants for Multicritical Singularities: An Overview

    • Daniel F. Styer
    Pages 7-11

  4. Experimental Studies of Magnetic Tricritical Points: Problems and Progress

    • Werner P. Wolf
    Pages 13-34

  5. Experimental Studies of Bicritical Points in 3D Antiferromagnets

    • Y. Shapira
    Pages 35-52

  6. The Experimental Evidence for a Lifshitz Point in MnP

    • Y. Shapira
    Pages 53-71

  7. Nature of the Smectic-A-Smectic-C Transition Near a Nematic-Smectic-A — Smectic-C Multicritical Point

    • C. C. Huang, S. C. Lien
    Pages 73-79

  8. Dynamics Near Multicritical Points

    • Volker Dohm
    Pages 81-112

  9. Critical Dynamics of Sound

    • Kristian Fossheim, Jon Otto Fossum
    Pages 113-128

  10. Multicritical Phenomena at Structural Phase Transitions

    • Kristian Fossheim
    Pages 129-142

  11. Bi- and Tetra-Critical Behavior of Uniaxially Stressed LaA103

    • K. A. Müller, W. Berlinger, J. E. Drumheller, J. G. Bednorz
    Pages 143-153

  12. Fluctuation Driven Multicritical Points

    • Amnon Aharony, Daniel Blankschtein
    Pages 155-164

  13. A New Multicritical Point in a Seven Dimensional Parameter Space

    • Serge Galam
    Pages 165-170

  14. Multicritical Points in Incommensurate Systems

    • Pierre Toledano
    Pages 171-176

  15. Neutron Investigation of Modulated Structures

    • R. Currat
    Pages 177-199

  16. Nature of the Incommensurate Phase of Rb2ZnCl 4

    • S. R. Andrews, H. Mashiyama
    Pages 201-206

  17. New Phenomena in Incommensurate Barium Sodium Niobate: Memory and Relaxation Effects

    • Gilles Errandonéa, Arlette Litzler, Hervé Savary, Jean-Claude Tolédano, Jacques Schneck, Jack Aubrée
    Pages 207-212

  18. Critical Fluctuauions and Magnetic Ordering in Praseodymium Metal

    • W. G. Stirling, K. A. McEwen
    Pages 213-218

  19. Soft Mode and Central Peak as A Consequence of Competing Interactions

    • Per-Anker LindgÃ¥rd
    Pages 219-220

  20. Criticality and Crossover in Stuctural Phase Transitions

    • Paul D. Beale
    Pages 221-225
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About this book

This book comprises the Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mu1ticritica1 Phenomena held in Geilo, Norway, between 10-21 April 1983. This school was the seventh to be held in Gei10, on various aspects of phase transitions. In spite of its apparently restrictive title the school was planned as a forum for the discus­ sion of phase transitions and instabilities in systems, with competing interactions and competing order parameters. Thus, in addition to the canonical multicritical points, subjects were diverse as critical phenomena in random magnetic systems and routes to chaos were discussed. The subject matter of the school is naturally divided into a series of categories which to some extent, reflect the historical development of interest in competing phenomena at phase transitions. Multicritical points in equilibrium systems, defined phenomenolo­ gically as points of sudden change of behaviour on an otherwise smooth phase boundary, were the first topics of the school. The theo­ retical consensus which has emerged during the past decade, largely as a result of calculations with the renormalisation group, was reviewed in some detail. The results presented, however, apply only to pure systems (in which dirt and other manifestations of reality are irrelevant) in that small realm close to the phase transition knoYln as "asymtopia.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

    R. Pynn

  • Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

    A. Skjeltorp

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multicritical Phenomena

  • Editors: R. Pynn, A. Skjeltorp

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2741-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41625-5Due: 01 April 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9698-0Published: 02 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2741-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 472

  • Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

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