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A Simple Spin Glass Perspective on Martensitic Shape-memory Alloys

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-13 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

A brief qualitative mapping is given between austenite, tweed and twinned phases of martensite alloys and corresponding paramagnetic, spin glass and periodic phases in spin glass alloys.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.2188,
  title  = {A Simple Spin Glass Perspective on Martensitic Shape-memory Alloys},
  author = {David Sherrington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.2188},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

This paper is dedicated to John Pendry in celebration of his 65th birthday. It has been accepted for a special issue of J.Phys.CM. This version corrects a typo, includes a new recent reference and indicates an alternative formulation for 3D

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