Discrete anchoring: Bulk-substrate coupling in lattice models

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 250, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 517-534

  Paraskevaidis, C E ^a   Taylor, P L ^b,e   Mulder, B M ^c   Papatriantafillou, C ^d  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FOM INSTITUTE DIFFER   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Lattice models; Potts model

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SUBSTRATES;

DISCRETE ANCHORING; POTTS MODEL;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS;

EID: 0031998342     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00566-9     Document Type: Article

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