Abstract
An elastic Ginzburg-Landau theory which includes strain and strain-gradient contributions is formulated for inhomogeneous strain fields associated with interface boundaries, heterophase inclusions, and transformation precursors. For proper purely ferroelastic materials of symmetry, an explicit kink-type solitary-wave solution describing a moving coherent () twin boundary is obtained.
- Received 1 May 1984
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1069
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