Two experimental tests of the halperin-lubensky-ma effect at the nematic–smectic- A phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3642-3645

  Yethiraj, Anand ^a   Bechhoefer, John ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0001628473     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3642     Document Type: Article

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