nLab Landau theory of phase transitions

Idea

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Related concepts

• phase of matter, phase transition

• outside of Landau theory: topological phase of matter

References

Textbook accounts:

• John W. Negele, Henri Orland, Chapter 6 in: Quantum Many-Particle Systems, Westview Press (1988, 1998) [doi:10.1201/9780429497926]

Reviews:

• Alexander Umantsev, Landau Theory of Phase Transitions, in: Field Theoretic Method in Phase Transformations, Lecture Notes in Physics 840 (2012) 7–35 $[$doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1487-2_2$]$

In contrast to topological phases of matter:

• Tudor D. Stanescu, Section 4.2 of: Introduction to Topological Quantum Matter & Quantum Computation, CRC Press 2020 (ISBN:9780367574116)

See also:

• Wikipedia, Landau theory