Quasi-two-dimensional Ising critical behavior of de Vries liquid crystals observed in the heat capacity and dielectric response

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

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Takekoshi, K ^a   Sasaki, Y ^a   Ema, K ^a   Yao, H ^a   Takanishi, Y ^a   Takezoe, H ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ISING MODEL; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

DIELECTRIC DATA; HEAT CAPACITY DATA; ISING CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; LOGARITHMIC DIVERGENCE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33847777190     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.031704     Document Type: Article

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