Structural Phase Transitions

Abstract

This volume consists of three articles which have previously appeared in Advances in Physics 29 (1980) andwhich are entitled 'Landau theory', 'Static critical behaviour' and 'Critical dynamics and quasi-elastic scattering'. These articles together provide a com-prehensive survey of the physics of structural phase transitions, covering topics of current interest such as incommensurable-modulated phases and lock-in transitions and includes an excellent review of recently developed theoretical techniques and of their agreement with experiment.