PrefacePreface to the English EditionNotationChapter 1. Introduction to Phenomenological Phase Transition Theory 1. Fundamentals of Landau's Thermodynamic Theory Elementary thermodynamic analysis (1). Spontaneous symmetry breaking at a continuous phase transition (7). The Landau condition for a second-order phase transition (9). Further development of Landau's theory (10). 2. Prerequisites on Space-group Representations Space-group irreducible representations (12). Irreducible representations and their decomposition (15). ReferencesChapter 2. Physical Realization of the Order Parameters at a Micro- scopic Level of DescriptionChapter 3. Symmetry Change at Phase TransitionsChapter 4. Analysis of the Thermodynamic Potential .Chapter 5. Phase Diagrams in the Space of Thermodynamic Potential ParametersChapter 7. Phase IYansitions il~ an External FieldChapter 8. Martensite TransformationsChapter 9. Incommensurate Periodicity PhasesChapter 10. Color Symmetry and its Role in Phase Transition TheoryChapter 11. Fluctuations and SymmetryReferencesAppendixIndex
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