General Criteria for the Stability of Uniaxially Ordered States of Incommensurate-Commensurate Systems

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: V. Dananić
• Author: Aleksa Bjeliš
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Physics)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Physics

Abstract (english)

Reconsidering the variational procedure for uniaxial systems modeled by continuous free energy functionals, we derive new general conditions for thermodynamic extrema. The utility of these conditions is briefly illustrated on the models for the classes I and II of incommensurate-commensurate systems.

• Keywords (english): incommensurate-commensurate transitions, thermodynamic stability, uniaxial systems
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Physical Review Letters
• Numbering: vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 10-13
• p-ISSN: 0031-9007
• e-ISSN: 1079-7114
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.10
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:302504
• Publication: 1998
• Document URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.10
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: Copyright (1998) by the American Physical Society.
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