Pseudo-Casimir force in chiral smectic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 68, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages

  Markun, B ^a   Zumer S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EXTRAPOLATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREE ENERGY; HAMILTONIANS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

LANDAU FREE ENERGY; PSEUDO-CASIMIR FORCE; RAPINI-PAPOULAR MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749101535     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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