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| A '''phase transition''' occurs at points on the [[Phase diagrams | phase diagram]] where the [[Helmholtz energy function]] is a singular function of the thermodynamic variables within it
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| <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-009-9814-1 Leo P. Kadanoff "More is the Same; Phase Transitions and Mean Field Theories", Journal of Statistical Physics '''137''' pp. 777-797 (2009)]</ref>.
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| The following is (an incomplete) list of phase transitions. The change from one state to another is usually monitored by some sort of [[order parameters | order parameter]].
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| *[[1-dimensional phase transitions]]
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| *[[Disordered hyperuniform phase]]
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| *[[First-order transitions]] | | *[[First-order transitions]] |
| *[[Gardner phase transition]]
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| *[[Gas-liquid phase transitions]] | | *[[Gas-liquid phase transitions]] |
| *[[Glass transition]]
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| *[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]] | | *[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]] |
| *[[Jamming transition]]
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| *[[Kosterlitz-Thouless transition]] | | *[[Kosterlitz-Thouless transition]] |
| *[[Landau theory of second-order phase transitions]] | | *[[Landau theory of second-order phase transitions]] |
| *[[Liquid-liquid phase transitions]] | | *[[Liquid-liquid phase transitions]] |
| *[[Martensitic phase transitions]]
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| *[[Nematic-smectic phase transition]]
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| *[[Nonequilibrium phase transitions]]
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| *[[Order-disorder transitions]]
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| *[[Quantum phase transitions]] | | *[[Quantum phase transitions]] |
| *[[Second-order transitions]] | | *[[Second-order transitions]] |
| *[[Solid-liquid phase transitions]] | | *[[Solid-liquid phase transitions]] |
| *[[Topological phase transitions]] | | *[[Topological phase transitions]] |
| *[[Gas-liquid phase transitions | Vapour-liquid phase transitions]]
| | ==Recommended reading== |
| '''Other transitions'''
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| *[[Coil-globule transition]]
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| *[[Helix-coil transition]]
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| ==See also== | |
| *[[Computation of phase equilibria]]
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| ==References==
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| <references/>
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| '''Recommended reading'''
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| *Paul Ehrenfest "Phase conversions in a general and enhanced sense, classified according to the specific singularities of the thermodynamic potential", Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen '''36''' pp. 153-157 (1933)
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| *[http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195053166 H. Eugene Stanley "Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena", Oxford University Press (1988)] | | *[http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195053166 H. Eugene Stanley "Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena", Oxford University Press (1988)] |
| *[http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198517306 J. M. Yeomans "Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions", Oxford University Press (1992)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp9536460 Benjamin Widom "Theory of Phase Equilibrium", Journal of Physical Chemistry '''100''' pp 13190-13199 (1996)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1070/PU1999v042n06ABEH000543 Georgii A. Martynov "The problem of phase transitions in statistical mechanics", Physics-Uspekhi '''42''' pp. 517-543 (1999)]
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| *[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v402/n6761supp/full/402c73a0.html Philip Ball "Transitions still to be made", Nature '''402''' C73-C76 (1999)] | | *[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v402/n6761supp/full/402c73a0.html Philip Ball "Transitions still to be made", Nature '''402''' C73-C76 (1999)] |
| * [[Hagen Kleinert|H. Kleinert]] and V. Schulte-Frohlinde, ''Critical Properties of φ<sup>4</sup>-Theories'', [http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/4733.html World Scientific (Singapore, 2001)]; Paperback ISBN 981-02-4659-5 (Read online at [http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/b8])''
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| [[category: phase transitions]] | | [[category: phase transitions]] |
| *[http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3377 R. Ni "Entropy-Driven Phase Transitions in Colloidal Systems", PhD Thesis, Utrecht University (2012)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4927414 T. Frolov and Y. Mishin "Phases, phase equilibria, and phase rules in low-dimensional systems", Journal of Chemical Physics '''143''' 044706 (2015)]
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