Competing Interactions and Microstructures: Statics and Dynamics: Proceedings of the CMS Workshop, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 5–8, 1987

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Microscopic Understanding of Modulated Structures and Polytypes....Pages 2-18
Electron Microscopy of Static and Dynamic Phenomena....Pages 19-29
Some Problems for Physicists in First Order Diffusional Phase Transformations in Crystalline Solids....Pages 30-49
Competing Displacive Interactions, Phonon Anomalies, and Structural Transitions Which Do Not “Soften”....Pages 50-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Competing Interactions and the Origins of Polytypism....Pages 60-73
On the Systematics of Phase Transformations in Metallic Alloys....Pages 74-83
Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Studies of Premartensitic Phenomena....Pages 84-94
Statics and Dynamics of Twin Boundaries in Martensites....Pages 95-103
The Frenkel-Kontorova Model with Nonconvex Interparticle Interactions....Pages 104-109
Cu 3 Pd Observed by High-Voltage Electron Microscopy....Pages 110-122
Existence and Formation of LPAPB Structures in Pt 3 V Studied Using High Resolution Electron Microscopy....Pages 123-127
Dense Packings of Hard Spheres....Pages 128-138
Competing Interactions in Metallic Superlattices....Pages 139-145
Quasi-Two-Dimensional Phase Transitions in Graphite Intercalation Compounds....Pages 146-157
Structure and Modeling of 2D Alkali Liquids in Graphite....Pages 158-166
Microstructures of Rare-Gas Films Adsorbed on Graphite: Classical and Quantum Simulations....Pages 167-176
New Theory for Competing Interactions and Microstructures in Partially Ordered (Liquid-Crystalline) Phases....Pages 177-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Defects, Hysteresis and Memory Effects in Modulated Systems....Pages 184-201
Competing Interactions: Charge Density Waves and Impurities....Pages 202-211
Dynamical Excitations of Site-Diluted Magnets....Pages 212-220
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Random Field Effects in Dilute Antiferromagnets....Pages 221-235
Spin Glasses....Pages 236-240
Neural Networks: A Tutorial....Pages 241-242
Ordering Kinetics in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems and Polymer Melts....Pages 243-253
Effects of Impurities on Domain Growth....Pages 254-262
Introduction to Growth Oscillations....Pages 263-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-275