Generalized Ehrenfest's approach to phase transitions in multicomponent systems in the presence of an electromagnetic field

L. Ambrosone () and F. Fontana

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2005, vol. 48, issue 4, 537-545

Abstract: The path of a transformation is defined and discussed in the framework of classical thermodynamics. The Ehrenfest's approach to the theory of higher order transition is generalized to heterogeneous systems of r components in the presence and in the absence of electromagnetic fields. By introducing a state label the phase transitions, in proximity of singular points, are analysed in terms of the stability theory. Systems, in the presence and in the absence of a magnetic field are discussed in some detail. It is shown that the Ehrenfest approximation about the transition of 2nd order is physically unstable. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2005

Date: 2005
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1140/epjb/e2006-00005-5 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:eurphb:v:48:y:2005:i:4:p:537-545

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10051

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00005-5

Access Statistics for this article

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems is currently edited by P. Hänggi and Angel Rubio

More articles in The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems from Springer, EDP Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().