Phase transitions in spin-phonon systems
<p>General symmetry arguments show that an elastic constant should vanish when a crystal undergoes a second order structural phase transition. A detailed theory of the elastic anomaly is developed for DyVO<sub>4</sub>, TbVO<sub>4</sub>, and Tm...
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1973
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