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Spurious First-Order Phase Transitions in the Self-Consistent Phonon Approximation

E. Pytte

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 28, 895 – Published 3 April, 1972

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.895

Abstract

It is shown that when the self-consistent phonon approximation is applied to displacive phase transitions, it leads to inconsistent results near the transition point, and that this may give rise to spurious first-order transitions.

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