The first half of the book presents the effective field approach, which is certainly the simplest approach to investigate cooperative phenomena and the accompanying phase transitions. It provides a common, intuitive approximation to the physics of such diverse phenomena as liquid-vapor transitions, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, order-disorder in alloys, ferroelectricity, superfluidity and ferroelasticity. The connection between the effective field approach and Landau's phenomenological theory is stressed. The latter half is devoted to some specific applications of the effective field concept to ferroelectric systems.
- ISBN10 1281373060
- ISBN13 9781281373069
- Publish Date 1 January 2006 (first published 1 May 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint World Scientific Publishing Company
- Edition 2nd Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 454
- Language English