Anatomy of a structural phase transition: Theoretical analysis of the displacive phase transition in quartz and other silicates

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 344-353

  Dove, Martin T ^a   Gambhir, Manoj ^a,b   Heine, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Phase transition; Quartz; Rigid unit modes

Indexed keywords

PHASE TRANSITION; QUARTZ; SILICATE;

EID: 0033029477     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002690050194     Document Type: Article

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