Hexatic-herringbone coupling at the hexatic transition in smectic liquid crystals: 4-ε renormalization group calculations revisited

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 1, 2003, Pages 417011-417017

  Kohandel, Mohammad ^a   Gingras, Michel J P ^a,b   Kemp, Josh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREE ENERGY; HAMILTONIANS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

HEXATIC TRANSITIONS; MOLECULAR AXES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18544405825     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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