Annotation
A classification of phenomenological phase-transition models for the two-component order parameter by the methods of equivariant catastrophe theory is proposed. The models are constructed on the basis of the number of thermodynamic parameters that are varied in an experiment (temperature, pressure, chemical potentials of admixtures, etc.) instead of the simple expansion of the thermodynamic potential in an order parameter power series. The classification of models with the order parameter symmetry groups $L=C_{nv}$ $(n=3, 4, 6)$ with the number of varied parameters from 1 to 5 is performed.
Received: 2016 May 3
Approved: 2016 November 8
PACS:
64.60.-i General studies of phase transitions
© 2016 Publisher M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University
Authors
S.V. Pavlov
Department of General Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
Department of General Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia