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A Solution to the Temperature Evolution of Multi-well Free-energy Landscape

Statistical Mechanics 2022-04-15 v1

Abstract

It has been a grand challenge to resolve the temperature evolution of multi-well free-energy landscape which is fundamentally relevant to phase transitions and associated critical phenomena as listed by Ginzburg [Rev. Mod. Phys. 76 (2004) 981]. To address this challenge, here we provide a simple solution based on a priori concept of Boltzmann thermal mixing among multiple parabolic potentials. The success and the impact of the present approach have been extensively demonstrated using a variety of materials, including Nb, YBa2Cu3O(7-x), Ca3Ru2O7, Ni, BiFeO3, and PbTiO3.

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@article{arxiv.2204.07067,
  title  = {A Solution to the Temperature Evolution of Multi-well Free-energy Landscape},
  author = {Yi Wang and Tiannan Yang and Shun-Li Shang and Long-Qing Chen and Zi-Kui Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07067},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages, 3 figures, 1 table