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In recent years the investigation of metastable intermetallic phases (crystalline [11.1], quasi-crystalline1 [11.2] and amorphous [11.3]) has attracted considerable attention, both because of the potential technological importance of some of these materials and because of the fundamental scientific interest in the influence of disorder on the properties of solids. The methods discussed in this book may also serve for an investigation of the formation and of the properties of these metastable phases. From the point of view of a calculation of the electronic ground-state energy there is no essential difference between a stable and a metastable crystalline compound, but new aspects arise in the study of non-crystalline solids — these will be briefly addressed below.
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Hafner, J. (1987). Beyond the Phase Diagram: The Formation and Properties of Metastable Phases. In: From Hamiltonians to Phase Diagrams. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83058-7_11
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