Finite transition pressure

Figure 4. Schematic showing a hysteresis loop for the CdSe nanociystals with the smearing of the thermodynamic transition pressure caused by the finite nature of the nanocrystal particle. The thermodynamic transition pressure is offset from the hysteresis center to emphasize that in first-order solid-solid transformations, this pressure is unlikely to be precisely centered. The lower plot shows the estimated smearing for CdSe nanocrystals as inversely proportional to the number of atoms in the crystal, at two temperatures, as discussed in the text. Note that nanocrystals are not ordinarily synAesized or studied in sizes smaller than 20 A in diameter. This figure shows that this thermal smearing is insignificant compared to the large hysteresis width in the CdSe nanociystals studied (25-130 A in diameter), such that the transition is bulk-like from this perspective. This means that observed transformations occur at pressures far from equilibrium, where there is little probability of back reaction to the metastable state once a nanociystal has transformed. In much smaller crystals or with larger temperatures, the smearing could become on the order of the hysteresis width, and the crystals would transform from one stmcture to the other at thermal equilibrium.

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Phase transitions in binary systems, nomially measured at constant pressure and composition, usually do not take place entirely at a single temperature, but rather extend over a finite but nonzero temperature range. Figure A2.5.3 shows a temperature-mole fraction T, x) phase diagram for one of the simplest of such examples, vaporization of an ideal liquid mixture to an ideal gas mixture, all at a fixed pressure, (e.g. 1 atm). Because there is an additional composition variable, the sample path shown in tlie figure is not only at constant pressure, but also at a constant total mole fraction, here chosen to be v = 1/2. 

Above the critical pressure, a transformation is initiated, but, unlike isothermal equilibrium transitions, a finite pressure and volume change is typically required to complete the transition. Such a behavior is clear evidence for nonequilibrium behavior. 

The preceding calculations can also be performed for finite cavity sizes. For this case, there are some additional sources of small amounts of energy associated with cavity formation arising from surface tension, pressure-volume work, and electrostriction. Because of the Franck-Condon principle these do not affect the transition energy, but they have some influence on the heat of solvation. Jortner s (1964) results are summarized as follows ... 

Diquark condensation makes the EoS harder, which leads to an increase in the maximum mass of the quark star configuration when compared to the case without diquark condensation. For finite temperatures the masses are smaller than at T = 0. For asymptotically high temperatures and densities the EoS behaves like a relativistic ideal gas, where the relation pressure versus energy density is temperature independent. In contrast to the bag model where this behavior occurs immediately after the deconfinement transition, our model EoS has a temperature dependent P(e) relation also beyond this point. 

In both cases (i. e. emission or absorption saturation) the halfwidth of this/Lamb dip is slightly dependent on laser power but mainly determined by the interaction time of the individual molecules with the standing light wave in the cavity. This time may be limited by the finite lifetimes rb of upper or lower states, by the average time l/aup between two disturbing collisions, or by the transit time Tt of the gas molecules across the laser beam. This last limitation becomes important at low pressures of the absorbing gas and for transitions between long-lived states (see Section IV.3). 

To consider gas molecules as isolated from interactions with their neighbors is often a useless approximation. When the gas has finite pressure, the molecules do in fact collide. When natural and collision broadening effects are combined, the line shape that results is also a lorentzian, but with a modified half-width at half maximum (HWHM). Twice the reciprocal of the mean time between collisions must be added to the sum of the natural lifetime reciprocals to obtain the new half-width. We may summarize by writing the probability per unit frequency of a transition at a frequency v for the combined natural and collision broadening of spectral lines for a gas under pressure ... 

Feshbach or compound resonances. These latter systems are bound rotovibra-tional supramolecular states that are coupled to the dissociation continuum in some way so that they have a finite lifetime these states will dissociate on their own, even in the absence of third-body collisions, unless they undergo a radiative transition first into some other pair state. The free-to-free state transitions are associated with broad profiles, which may often be approximated quite closely by certain model line profiles, Section 5.2, p. 270 If bound states are involved, the resulting spectra show more or less striking structures pressure broadened rotovibrational bands of bound-to-bound transitions, e.g., the sharp lines shown in Fig. 3.41 on p. 120, and more or less diffuse structures arising from bound-to-free and free-to-bound transitions which are also noticeable in that figure and in Figs. 6.5 and 6.19. At low spectroscopic resolution or at high pressures, these structures flatten, often to the point of disappearance. Spectral contributions of bound dimer states show absorption dips at the various monomer Raman lines, as in Fig. 6.5. 

It is clear that sound, meaning pressure waves, travels at finite speed. Thus some of the hyperbolic—wavelike-characteristics associated with pressure are in accord with everyday experience. As a fluid becomes more incompressible (e.g., water relative to air), the sound speed increases. In a truly incompressible fluid, pressure travels at infinite speed. When the wave speed is infinite, the pressure effects become parabolic or elliptic, rather than hyperbolic. The pressure terms in the Navier-Stokes equations do not change in the transition from hyperbolic to elliptic. Instead, the equation of state changes. That is, the relationship between pressure and density change and the time derivative is lost from the continuity equation. Therefore the situation does not permit a simple characterization by inspection of first and second derivatives. 

Ehrenfest s concept of the discontinuities at the transition point was that the discontinuities were finite, similar to the discontinuities in the entropy and volume for first-order transitions. Only one second-order transition, that of superconductors in zero magnetic field, has been found which is of this type. The others, such as the transition between liquid helium-I and liquid helium-II, the Curie point, the order-disorder transition in some alloys, and transition in certain crystals due to rotational phenomena all have discontinuities that are large and may be infinite. Such discontinuities are particularly evident in the behavior of the heat capacity at constant pressure in the region of the transition temperature. The curve of the heat capacity as a function of the temperature has the general form of the Greek letter lambda and, hence, the points are called lambda points. Except for liquid helium, the effect of pressure on the transition temperature is very small. The behavior of systems at these second-order transitions is not completely known, and further thermodynamic treatment must be based on molecular and statistical concepts. These concepts are beyond the scope of this book, and no further discussion of second-order transitions is given. 

Liquid helium presents an interesting case leading to further understanding of the third law. When liquid 4He, the abundant isotope of helium, is cooled at pressures of < 25 bar, a second-order transition takes place at approximately 2 K to form liquid Hell. On further cooling Hell remains liquid to the lowest observed temperature at 10 5 K. Hell does become solid at pressures greater than about 25 bar. The slope of the equilibrium line between liquid and solid helium apparently becomes zero at temperatures below approximately 1 K. Thus, dP/dT becomes zero for these temperatures and therefore AS, the difference between the molar entropies of liquid Hell and solid helium, is zero because AV remains finite. We may assume that liquid Hell remains liquid as 0 K is approached at pressures below 25 bar. Then, if the value of the entropy function for sol 4 helium becomes zero at 0 K, so must the value for liquid Hell. Liquid 3He apparently does not have the second-order transition, but like 4He it appears to remain liquid as the temperature is lowered at pressures of less than approximately 30 bar. The slope of the equilibrium line between solid and liquid 3He appears to become zero as the temperature approaches 0 K. If, then, the slope is zero at 0 K, the value of the entropy function of liquid 3He is zero at 0 K if we assume that the entropy of solid 3He is zero at 0 K. Helium is the only known substance that apparently remains liquid as absolute zero is approached under appropriate pressures. Here we have evidence that the third law is applicable to liquid helium and is not restricted to crystalline phases. 

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