Nematics with quenched disorder: what is left when long range order is disrupted?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1008-1011

  Bellini, T ^a   Buscaglia, M ^b   Chiccoli, C ^c   Mantegazza, F ^d   Pasini, P ^c   Zannoni, C ^e  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d INFM   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; VOLUME FRACTION;

FILLED NEMATICS; ISOTROPIC NEMATIC TRANSITION; LONG RANGE ORDER; QUENCHED DISORDER; RAYLEIGH-GANS APPROXIMATION; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SPRINKLED SILICA SPIN MODEL;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034230038     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1008     Document Type: Article

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