Experimental evidence of the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma effect in liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1267-1270

  Lelidis, Ioannis ^a  

^a Universite de Picardie Jules Verne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FREE ENERGY; GLASS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; TEMPERATURE;

BIREFRINGENCE MEASUREMENT; HALPERIN-LUBENSKY-MA EFFECT; NEMATIC DIRECTOR THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; SECONDARY ORDER PARAMETER DISCONTINUITY; SMECTIC ORDER PARAMETER;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 4244208622     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1267     Document Type: Article

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