Arrested States of Solids
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
Solids produced as a result of a fast quench across a freezing or a structural transition get stuck in long-lived metastable configurations of distinct morphology, sensitively dependent on the processing history. {\it Martensites} are particularly well studied examples of nonequilibrium solid-solid transformations. Since there are some excellent reviews on the subject, we shall, in this brief article, mainly present a summary of our work on the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of Martensites.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910011,
title = {Arrested States of Solids},
author = {Madan Rao and Surajit Sengupta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910011},
year = {2007}
}
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4 figs (3 embedded eps and 1 'slide.gif' separate), review written for Current Science