Phase transition without spontaneous symmetry breaking between hard and soft solid states

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 823-826

  Shimahara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic phonon; Biferrocene; First order phase transition; Ionic crystal; Isostructural valence transition; Optical phonon; Valence number

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644469059     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.823     Document Type: Article

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