Editing Phase transition (section)

===Modern classifications===
In the modern classification scheme, phase transitions are divided into two broad categories, named similarly to the Ehrenfest classes:<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

'''First-order phase transitions''' are those that involve a [[latent heat]]. During such a transition, a system either absorbs or releases a fixed (and typically large) amount of energy per volume. During this process, the temperature of the system will stay constant as heat is added: the system is in a "mixed-phase regime" in which some parts of the system have completed the transition and others have not.<ref>Faghri, A., and Zhang, Y., [https://books.google.com/books?id=bxndY2KSuQsC&q=Transport+Phenomena+in+Multiphase+Systems ''Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems''], Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2006,</ref><ref>Faghri, A., and Zhang, Y., [https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030221362 ''Fundamentals of Multiphase Heat Transfer and Flow''], Springer, New York, NY, 2020</ref> 

Familiar examples are the melting of ice or the boiling of water (the water does not instantly turn into [[water vapor|vapor]], but forms a [[turbulence|turbulent]] mixture of liquid water and vapor bubbles). [[Yoseph Imry]] and Michael Wortis showed that [[quenched disorder]] can broaden a first-order transition. That is, the transformation is completed over a finite range of temperatures, but phenomena like supercooling and superheating survive and hysteresis is observed on thermal cycling.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Imry | first1 = Y. | last2 = Wortis | first2 = M. | year = 1979 | title =  Influence of quenched impurities on first-order phase transitions| journal = Phys. Rev. B | volume = 19 | issue = 7| pages = 3580–3585 | doi=10.1103/physrevb.19.3580|bibcode = 1979PhRvB..19.3580I }}</ref><ref name="KumarPramanik2006">{{cite journal|last1=Kumar|first1=Kranti|last2=Pramanik|first2=A. K.|last3=Banerjee|first3=A.|last4=Chaddah|first4=P.|last5=Roy|first5=S. B.|last6=Park|first6=S.|last7=Zhang|first7=C. L.|last8=Cheong|first8=S.-W.|title=Relating supercooling and glass-like arrest of kinetics for phase separated systems: DopedCeFe2and(La,Pr,Ca)MnO3|journal=Physical Review B|volume=73|issue=18|page=184435|year=2006|issn=1098-0121|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.73.184435|arxiv = cond-mat/0602627 |bibcode = 2006PhRvB..73r4435K |s2cid=117080049}}</ref><ref name="PasquiniDaroca2008">{{cite journal|last1=Pasquini|first1=G.|last2=Daroca|first2=D. Pérez|last3=Chiliotte|first3=C.|last4=Lozano|first4=G. S.|last5=Bekeris|first5=V.|title=Ordered, Disordered, and Coexistent Stable Vortex Lattices inNbSe2Single Crystals|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=100|issue=24|page=247003|year=2008|issn=0031-9007|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.247003|pmid=18643617|bibcode=2008PhRvL.100x7003P|arxiv=0803.0307|s2cid=1568288}}</ref>

'''{{va|Second-order phase transition}}s''' are also called ''"continuous phase transitions"''. They are characterized by a divergent susceptibility, an infinite [[Correlation function (statistical mechanics)|correlation length]], and a [[power law]] decay of correlations near [[Critical point (thermodynamics)|criticality]]. Examples of second-order phase transitions are the [[Ferromagnetism|ferromagnetic]] transition, superconducting transition (for a [[Type-I superconductor]] the phase transition is second-order at zero external field and for a [[Type-II superconductor]] the phase transition is second-order for both normal-state–mixed-state and mixed-state–superconducting-state transitions) and the [[superfluid]] transition. In contrast to viscosity, thermal expansion and heat capacity of amorphous materials show a relatively sudden change at the glass transition temperature<ref name="J. Non-Cryst 2013">{{cite journal | last1 = Ojovan | first1 = M.I. | year = 2013 | title = Ordering and structural changes at the glass-liquid transition | journal = J. Non-Cryst. Solids | volume = 382 | pages = 79–86 | doi = 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2013.10.016 |bibcode = 2013JNCS..382...79O }}</ref> which enables accurate detection using [[differential scanning calorimetry]] measurements.  [[Lev Landau]] gave a [[Phenomenology (particle physics)|phenomenological]] [[Landau theory|theory]] of second-order phase transitions.

Apart from isolated, simple phase transitions, there exist transition lines as well as [[multicritical point]]s, when varying external parameters like the magnetic field or composition.

Several transitions are known as ''infinite-order phase transitions''.
They are continuous but break no [[#Symmetry|symmetries]]. The most famous example is the [[Kosterlitz–Thouless transition]] in the two-dimensional [[XY model]]. Many [[quantum phase transition]]s, e.g., in [[two-dimensional electron gas]]es, belong to this class.

The [[glass transition|liquid–glass transition]] is observed in many [[polymers]] and other liquids that can be [[supercooling|supercooled]] far below the melting point of the crystalline phase. This is atypical in several respects. It is not a transition between thermodynamic ground states: it is widely believed that the true ground state is always crystalline. Glass is a ''[[quenched disorder]]'' state, and its entropy, density, and so on, depend on the thermal history. Therefore, the glass transition is primarily a dynamic phenomenon: on cooling a liquid, internal degrees of freedom successively fall out of equilibrium. Some theoretical methods predict an underlying phase transition in the hypothetical limit of infinitely long relaxation times.<ref>Gotze, Wolfgang. "Complex Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids: A Mode-Coupling Theory."</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lubchenko | first1 = V. Wolynes | last2 = Wolynes | first2 = Peter G. | year = 2007 | title = Theory of Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids | journal = Annual Review of Physical Chemistry | volume = 58 | pages = 235–266 | doi=10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104653| pmid = 17067282 |arxiv = cond-mat/0607349 |bibcode = 2007ARPC...58..235L | s2cid = 46089564 }}</ref> No direct experimental evidence supports the existence of these transitions.