The Physics of Phase Transitions occupies an important place at the crossroads of several fields central to materials sciences. This second edition incorporates

The use of high-pressure techniques has become popular for studying the nature of substances and phenomena occurring in them, especially as a means of obtaining

A clear, concise and rigorous textbook covering phase transitions in the context of advances in electronic structure and statistical mechanics.

A classical metastable state possesses a local free energy minimum at infinite sizes, but not a global one. This concept is phase size independent. We have stud