Abstract The effect of strain-induced order-parameter couplings on phase transitions is investigated for systems with two one-dimensional order parameters. Starting from the Landau free energy expression, the inclusion of bilinear and linear-quadratic couplings between strain and the two order parameters leads, after renormalisation, to bilinear and biquadratic forms of order-parameter coupling. In the case of bilinear couplings, it is shown that instead of two transition temperatures, T 1 and T 2 (T 1 > T 2), one observes a renormalised T c near T 1 and a crossover point near T 2 This crossover is not symmetry breaking. In the case of biquadratic couplings, four different phases (O, I, II, III) corresponding to four different order-parameter solutions are identified. The path of phase transitions between the different phases in relation to the order-parameter coupling is discussed in terms of the movement of an equilibrium point in the vector space of the two order parameters.
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