On the athermal character of structural phase transitions
Materials Science
2016-08-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The significance of thermal fluctuations on nucleation in structural first-order phase transitions has been examined. The prototype case of martensitic transitions has been experimentally investigated by means of acoustic emission techniques. We propose a model based on the mean first-passage time to account for the experimental observations. Our study provides a unified framework to establish the conditions for isothermal and athermal transitions to be observed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109019,
title = {On the athermal character of structural phase transitions},
author = {Francisco J. Perez-Reche and Eduard Vives and Lluis Manosa and Antoni Planes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109019},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett