Fluctuation-driven first-order crystal to rotator phase transition |
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| Authors: | Prabir K. Mukherjee |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics , Presidency University , 86/1 College Street, Kolkata 700 073 , India pkmuk1966@gmail.com |
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| Abstract: | This article develops renormalization-group techniques to analyze the phase transition between the crystal and the rotator-V (Rv), phase in n-alkanes. An explicit free energy is constructed and it is verified that the unstable fixed point corresponds to a fluctuation-driven first-order crystal to Rv phase transition. Available experimental data are consistent with our model. |
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| Keywords: | rotator phases renormalization-group theory phase transition |
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