Renormalization-group treatment of the -incommensurate transition in quartz and berlinite

Ofer Biham; David Mukamel; John Toner; Xiaodong Zhu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2439

Physical Review Letters

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23 Nov 1987

Renormalization-group treatment of the -incommensurate transition in quartz and berlinite

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The novel -incommensurate transition in quartz and berlinite is studied in the μ=4-d expansion. It has no stable fixed point, indicating that the transition is first order. © 1987 The American Physical Society.

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