<div>Dear Stefano</div> <div> I'm so sorry and giving my delayed thanks to you, </div> <div> I am not sure if i can continue the discussion of my previous question. I have read the papers you suggested. And the authors proposed that the softening mode coupled with the lattice strain can induced a second or a slightly first order pahse transition. But I stil have doubts in the displacive instabilitis. </div> <div> The character of the transition from NaCl to CsCl is thougt to be first order in experiment. May I cosider this transition to be induced by the lattice instability if I found the softening mode in the NaCl phase at the pressure which is consitent with the experiment? </div> <div> Best regards. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><EM>Hi, Li
Yan. This is a good question which, I am sure, has been =20<BR>addressed many times in many places. There are for sure a number of =20<BR>textbook references. The only one that occurs to me by heart is =20<BR>unfortunately in French [N. Boccara, Symmetries brisees (Hermann, =20<BR>Paris, 1976)]. Any textbook dealing with Landau's theory of phase =20<BR>transitions would do. The literature in the field looks often more =20<BR>complicated than it actually should. You may want to take a glance at =20=<BR><BR>a pair of old papers of mine where your issue is addressed using =20<BR>minimum theoretical background.<BR><BR>NARDELLI MB, BARONI S, GIANNOZZI P<BR>HIGH-PRESSURE LOW-SYMMETRY PHASES OF CESIUM-HALIDES<BR>PHYSICAL REVIEW B 51 (13): 8060-8068 APR 1 1995<BR><BR>NARDELLI MB, BARONI S, GIANNOZZI P<BR>PHONON SOFTENING AND HIGH-PRESSURE LOW-SYMMETRY PHASES OF CESIUM IODIDE<BR>PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 69 (7): 1069-1072 AUG 17 1992<BR><BR>Hope you will find something useful in
them. If not, I will try to =20<BR>write a short explanation, but for this you will have to wait for me =20<BR>to find 1-2 hours of spare time, which is not going to be tomorrow ...<BR><BR>Cheers - Stefano<BR><BR></EM><BR>On Jan 9, 2007, at 8:54 AM, li yan wrote:<BR><BR>><I> Dear all,<BR></I>><I> Since the displacive phase transition is second order, why =20<BR></I>><I> some first order transitions are considered to be induced by the =20<BR></I>><I> displacive instabilities? would you please give me some advices or =20<BR></I>><I> some reference papers about
this?<BR></I>><I> =20=<BR></I><BR>><I> best regards<BR></I>><I> __________________________________________________<BR></I><BR> </div><p>
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