Chiral symmetry breaking in bent-core liquid crystals

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

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Longa, Lech ^a   Paja̧k, Grzegorz ^a   Wydro, Thomas ^a,b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC INTERACTION; BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CORE LIQUIDS; CRYSTAL SYSTEM; HOMOGENEOUS PHASIS; LATTICE MODELS; LONG RANGE ORDERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

EID: 66349121375     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.040701     Document Type: Article

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