Renormalization-Group Treatment of the <span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>β</mi></math></span>-Incommensurate Transition in Quartz and Berlinite

Ofer Biham; David Mukamel; John Toner; Xiaodong Zhu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2439

Renormalization-Group Treatment of the $β$ -Incommensurate Transition in Quartz and Berlinite

Ofer Biham, David Mukamel, John Toner, and Xiaodong Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 2439 – Published 23 November 1987

Abstract

The novel $β$ -incommensurate transition in quartz and berlinite is studied in the $ε = 4 - d$ expansion. It has no stable fixed point, indicating that the transition is first order.

Received 28 August 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2439

Authors & Affiliations

Ofer Biham

Department of Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

David Mukamel^* and John Toner

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

Xiaodong Zhu^†

Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S1A7

^*Permanent address: Department of Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
^†Current address: Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.