Dystactic phase
"Dystactic phase" shall here on this wiki refer to any disordered phase of matter where
the positions and trajectories of individual atoms are to a high degree unknown and or quantum dispersed.
Dystactic phases include:'
- the liquid phase
- the gas phase
- the plasma phase - not that it matters much
- liquid crystals in an for them typical partially unknown state
- randomly piled up and sticking together nanoparticles (even if the individual nanoparticles are atomically precise). Unless perfectly selfassembled witout flaw.
And eventually:
- amorphous solid phase glasses with unknown structure
- polycrystalline solids with unknown grain boundary structures
Why a new term?
Just an invented term to complement the term "eutactic phase".
Note: Not "eutectic" (well melting) but eutactic (well ordered).
- dystactic phase ... not well ordered phase – typically referring to the liquid phase and/or the gas phase
- eutactic phase ... well ordered phase – synonym to machine phase
Misc
Some disordered electron spins (and especially nuclear spins)
may well be tolerable in machine phase (eutactic phase).
To be precise the spin systems can be a bit off a dystactic phase.
See: Inter system crossing for what that entails. (... inhowfar are cropping spins predictable in context ...)
Unforseen spinflipping requirements.
The phonon system is definitely a dystactic phase (if phase is applicable here).
It cannot be made "fully eutactic" to a poiunt where the phonon system makes no sense anymore.
Even at zero kelvin there is zero point energy from the uncertainty relationship.
External links
- Wiktionary: eutactic
