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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beyond the Crystalline State
    sub title: an Emerging Perspective
  name:
    name part: Venkataraman, Ganesan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Sahoo, Debendranath.
  name:
    name part: Balakrishnan, Venkataraman.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1989
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 207 pages 87 illustrations)
  abstract: This is the first book to weave together into a coherent picture various recent studies of the different phases of condensed matter. Of the many known phases of condensed matter, the crystalline state has received most attention, and although noncrystalline states, for example liquid crystals, have also been extensively studied, this has been mostly without reference to interrelations between phases. This book gives an integrated overview with emphasis on physical aspects. The treatment is substantially descriptive, so although the key ideas involved are rather sophisticated the book should be accessible not only to experimental physicists but also to chemists, materials scientists, metallurgists and ceramicists whose work touches on condensed matter physics. Particular stress is laid on the role played by symmetry and symmetry breaking, and on the uses of symmetry concepts in the systematic classification of defects. The ground is also prepared for the possible future development of a field theory capable of describing both structure and dynamics. A series of technical appendices prepare the more mathematical reader for a deeper pursuit of the subject.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Variety in Structures -- Order Out of Disorder -- Defects and Topology -- Structures by Projection -- Beyond Simple Geometry -- Tilings in One Dimension -- Ergodicity Breaking -- Symmetry Breaking -- A Second Look -- Appendix A -- F -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
  note: by Ganesan Venkataraman, Debendranath Sahoo, Venkataraman Balakrishnan.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Crystallography
  subject:
    topic: Crystallography
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QD901-999
  classification: 548
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer series in solid-state sciences ; 84
  identifier: 9783642834349 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3642834345 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9783642834363
  identifier: 3642834361
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422160058.0
    record identifier: in00003551828
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng