Critical exponents for the Landau-De gennes model of the nematic-isotropic phase transition

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 307, Issue , 1997, Pages 103-110

  Mukherjee, Prabir K ^a,b   Saha, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Critical exponents; Nematic liquid crystals; Phase transition; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

RENORMALIZATION GROUP; WILSON'S RECURSION RELATIONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031362017     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587259708047089     Document Type: Article

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