Abstract

A D Bruce and R A Cowley 1981 London: Taylor and Francis 326 pp price £15 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.

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