Incommensurate Crystals, Liquid Crystals, and Quasi-Crystals PDF
by J.F. Scott, N.A. Clark
Part of the Nato Science Series B: series
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In this NATO-sponsored Advanced Research Workshop we succeeded in bringing together approximately forty scientists working in the three main areas of structurally incommensurate materials: incommensurate crystals (primarily ferroelectric insulators), incommensurate liquid crystals, and metallic quasi-crystals.
Although these three classes of materials are quite distinct, the commonality of the physics of the origin and descrip- tion of these incommensurate structures is striking and evident in these proceedings.
A measure of the success of this conference was the degree to which interaction among the three subgroups occurred; this was facili- tated by approximately equal amounts of theory and experiment in the papers presented.
We thank the University of Colorado for providing pleasant housing and conference facilities at a modest cost, and we are especially grate- ful to Ann Underwood, who retyped all the manuscripts into camera-ready form.
J. F. Scott Boulder, Colorado N. A. Clark v CONTENTS PART I: INCOMMENSURATE CRYSTALS A. Theory A PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE TRANSITION SEQUENCE INCLUDING AN INCOMMENSURATE (COMMENSURATE) PHASE SANDWICHED BY REENTRANT COMMENSURATE (INCOMMENSURATE) PHASE - Yoshihiro Ishibashi . . . . . 1 DAUPHINE-TWIN DOMAIN CONFIGURATIONS IN QUARTZ AND ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE - M.
B. Wa lker . . . . . . . . . . 9 ELASTIC AND INELASTIC SCATTERING FROM QUASI-PERIODIC STRUCTURES - T.
Janssen and R. Currat . . . . . 19 ARE EXOTIC CONSEQUENCES OF INCOMMENSURABILITY IN SOLIDS EXPERIMENTALLY OBSERVABLE? - J. B. Sokoloff. 35 B. Theory - Numerical l1ethods THE APPLICATION OF AXIAL ISING MODELS TO THE DESCRIPTION OF MODULATED ORDER - Julia Yeomans . . 45 TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS OF COMMENSURATE-INCOMMENSURATE PHASE TRANSITIONS - Palll D.
Beale . . .
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