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In this Chapter, we want to give an overview of a very young research field of statistical physics: the physics of phase transitions. In the first part of this book we have already mentioned phase transitions between solid, liquid, and gaseous aggregation states. In the following we also want to present other phase transitions, and to discuss advanced methods for their theoretical description. This should give the reader the ability to understand the original literature in quite different branches of this research area.
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Greiner, W., Neise, L., Stöcker, H. (1995). Classification of Phase Transitions. In: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Classical Theoretical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0827-3_17
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