A detailed Monte Carlo investigation of the tricritical region of a biaxial liquid crystal system

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 469-476

  Chiccoli, Cesare ^a   Pasini, Paolo ^a   Semeria, Franco ^a   Zannoni, Claudio ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biaxial Nematics; Computer Simulations; Liquid Crystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033426056     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0129183199000358     Document Type: Article

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