Anharmonic Lattices, Structural Transitions and Melting: NATO Science Series E:, cartea 1

Phase Transitions, Anharmonic Solids and Liquids.- Neutron Scattering Studies of Soft Mode Dynamics.- Slow Local Fluctuations near Tc in SrTio3 Studied by EPR.- Hydrodynamics near Phase Transitions of Second Order.- Review of Methods for Obtaining a Central Mode.- Nonlinear Fluctuations and the Central Mode.- Some Further Observations of Soft Phonon Line Shapes in KMnF3.- Critical Sound Velocity and Attenuation in KMnF3.- Raman Spectral Study of the Upper Phase Transition in KMnF3.- Soft Mode and Critical Opalescence in SrTio3.- Phonon Transport Theory and the Central Mode.- Phase Transitions in Solid CD4.- The Jahn-Teller Effect as a Mechanism for Structural Phase Transitions.- Soft Modes at First and Second Order Phase Transitions.- A Qualitative Picture of the Tricritical Point.- Tricritical Studies of ND4Cl.- Computer Simulation of a Discontinuous Phase Transition in the Two-Dimensional One-Spin-Flip Ising Model.- Continuous versus Discontinuous Phasetransitions.- Dynamics of Fluids Near the Critical Point: Light Scattering Investigations.- Neutron Scattering in Solid and Liquid H2.- Neutron Scattering by a Liquid Crystal at Temperatures Close to Its Melting Point.- X-Ray Studies of the Smectic Structure and the Solid-Smectic Transition.- High-Frequency Dynamics of Simple Solids and Liquids Near Their Melting Points.- Analysis of the Approach to the Convective Instability Point.- Melting: Theories and Recent Computer Simulations.- Volume Expansion, Thermal and Electrical Conductivities and Sound Velocities of Sodium at Temperatures Very Close to Its Melting Point.- List of Participants.