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Chapter 7 Non-equilibrium dynamics of the austenite to martensite phase transition in the Ni-Mn-In based alloys In earlier Chapters we have seen that Ni50Mn34In16 alloy undergoes a martensitic transition from a high temperature (T) austenite (AST) phase to a low temperature martensite (MST) phase that can be induced by temperature as well as magnetic field (H). This H-induced phase transition gives rise to interesting functionalities in the alloys in the form of magnetic superelasticity, large magnetocaloric effect, and large magnetoresistance. In a parallel development there has been a recent spurt of interest in the H,T induced magnetostructural phase transition in various classes of magnetic materials such as doped-CeFe2 alloys [7.1,7.2], magnetocaloric material Gd Ge [7.3], RhFe [7.4], Nd Rh [7.5] and manganite compounds 5 4 7 13 showing colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) effect [7.6-7.9]. The observed magnetostructural transition in these different classes of magnetic systems is found to be accompanied by interesting thermomagnetic history effects [7.1-7.9]. These thermomagnetic effects are now understood to be the manifestations of phase coexistence and metastability [7.2, 7.10] associated with a disorder-influenced first-order phase transition [7.11-7.12]. It is also observed that under certain circumstances this magnetostructural transition gets kinetically arrested [7.8, 7.13], giving rise to an interesting magnetic state with a glass-like dynamical response [7.14,7.15]. In all these systems the magnetic part of the transition invo