Phase transitions

• First-order transitions
• Gas-liquid phase transitions
• Isotropic-nematic phase transition
• Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
• Landau theory of second-order phase transitions
• Liquid-liquid phase transitions
• Quantum phase transitions
• Second-order transitions
• Solid-liquid phase transitions
• Topological phase transitions

Recommended reading

• H. Eugene Stanley "Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena", Oxford University Press (1988)
• Philip Ball "Transitions still to be made", Nature 402 C73-C76 (1999)