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Several years ago, Pauling and Hayward [9.1] presented a very interesting study of the architecture of molecules. We are here interested in the next stage, the architecture of the condensed state—i.e., the macroscopic structures that can be built out of large collections of atoms or molecules. The phases of condensed matter may be regarded as arising from an attempt to fill space homogeneously with given elementary entities, subject to certain constraints arising from basic physical principles. This leads to the wide variety of phases one observes in matter in the condensed state.
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Venkataraman, G., Sahoo, D., Balakrishnan, V. (1989). Symmetry Breaking—A Second Look. In: Beyond the Crystalline State. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83434-9_9
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