Crossover from [formula presented] critical to tricritical behavior of heat capacity at the smectic-[formula presented]–chiral-smectic-[formula presented] liquid-crystal transition

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 6677-6684

  Ema, Kenji ^a   Yao, Haruhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0000587606     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.57.6677     Document Type: Article

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