Devil's staircase and harmless staircase in the smectic-C* α phase in an electric field

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

Volumn 70, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Rovšek, Barbara ^a,b   Čepič, Mojca ^a,b   Žekš, Boštjan ^a,c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREE ENERGY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

CHIRAL; DISCRETE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL; HELICAL STRUCTURES; SMECTIC LAYERS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 19944365873     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.041706     Document Type: Article

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