Eur. Phys. J. B 64, 125-138 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00283-9

Nonergodic thermodynamics of disordered ferromagnets and ferroelectrics

Physics Research Institute at Southern Federal University, 344090 Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Corresponding author: ^a timonin@aaanet.ru

Received: 11 April 2008
Revised: 18 June 2008
Published online: 16 July 2008

Abstract

Phenomenological thermodynamic theory describing the properties of metastable states in disordered ferromagnets and ferroelectrics with frustrative random interactions is developed and its ability to describe various nonergodic phenomena in real crystals is demonstrated.