Some Practical Aspects of Studying Equations of State and Structural Phase Transitions at High Pressure

Abstract

There are many excellent published review papers and text books on the theory of both phase transitions and equations of state, and it is not the purpose of this work to duplicate that information. It is instead an attempt to answer some of the more practical questions that arise when one wishes to undertake a measurement to determine the equation of state of a crystalline solid by diffraction, or to analyse the results of a high-pressure diffraction experiment on a crystalline phase undergoing a structural phase transition.