This family of processes causes a discontinuous or first order phase transition.
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This is a great improvement in the study of first order phase transitions.
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First order phase transitions are characterized by a discontinuity in the magnetization changes with temperature, resulting in a latent heat.
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The transition between those two phases is not continuous, indeed the phase diagram of the system exhibits a first order phase transition with a microphase separation.
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For ferroelectrics with a first order phase transition, \ alpha _ { 11 }, whereas \ alpha _ { 11 } > 0 for a second order phase transition.
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It could also be that a first order phase transition to another liquid state occurs before the Kauzmann temperature with the heat capacity of this new state being less than that obtained by extrapolation from higher temperature.