Stability of liquid crystalline phases in the phase-field-crystal model

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

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Achim, Cristian V ^a,b   Wittkowski, Raphael ^b   Löwen, Hartmut ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TOPOLOGY; COUPLING PARAMETERS; FOURTH ORDER; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; IN-LINE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; NEMATIC ORDER; NUMERICAL MINIMIZATION; ORDER PARAMETER; PLASTIC CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; PLASTIC CRYSTALS; SMECTIC-A; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STABLE LIQUIDS; STABLE PHASIS; SUB-LATTICES; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

CRYSTALS; FREE ENERGY; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; TOPOLOGY;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS;

EID: 79961085092     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061712     Document Type: Article

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