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Analysis in terms of the relevant representations is likely to be extremely difficult. Such effects may be important in incommensurate structures of high symmetry where the vectors ±Po are repeated by rotational symmetry elements in the Brillouin zone, as studied in incommensurate phase transformations in certain cubic nitride phases, McConnell and Heine, 1982. 25 3. THE GROUP THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF SHORT RANGE ORDER IN CRYSTALS So far we have been concerned with setting up a formal method for the general analysis of short range interactions in crystals which is relevant in defining the origin of modulated structures.
It turns out this does not give a strong enough influence: there can be no phase transition in a genuinely one dimensional system. massively to a range of order of Insteaa the fluctuations build magnitude exp (JlkB T) where is the nearest neighbour coupling, but they remam fluctuations. In two dimensions there are many more possible paths (Figure 4b) and a phase transition does occur in almost all models though not in all. In some cases a 'floating' phase results. The more floppy the ordering is, the lower Tc is compared with the mean field value.
Indeed they are the kinds of observations and measurements which our experimental colleagues would dearly love to make in the laboratory. The trouble is that the experimental tools are in most cases just far far too blunt at the level of individual atoms and their interactions. The same is often true of computers too, but nevertheless there are many situations where computers are able to provide important and highly detailed information. The work in Cambridge to understand the origin of SiC polytypes is a good example.