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3 unusual facts about Phase transition


Joule per mole

Physical quantities measured in J·mol−1 usually describe quantities of energy transferred during phase transformations or chemical reactions.

Phase change

Phase transition, the transformation from one thermodynamic state to another.

Phase transition

The breaking of symmetries in the laws of physics during the early history of the universe as its temperature cooled.


Andrew D. Huxley

This emergence of an unconventional superconducting state by the application of an external tuning parameter such as magnetic field or pressure is hypothesised to be closely related to a 'Quantum critical point' (QCP) - a special phase transition that occurs at temperatures approaching zero kelvins.

Barry Simon

Following his doctoral studies, Simon took professorship at Princeton for many years, often working with colleague Elliott H. Lieb on the Thomas-Fermi Theory and Hartree-Fock Theory of atoms in addition to phase transitions and mentoring many of the same students as Lieb.

Valery Pokrovsky

He ist best known for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to modern theory of phase transitions, together with Alexander Patashinski, in 1965, as well as the


see also

Topological defect

Domain walls, two-dimensional membranes that form when a discrete symmetry is broken at a phase transition.