Critical exponents at a reentrant isotropic-calamitic nematic phase transition

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 333, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 120-123

  Simoes M ^a   De Campos, A ^a   Santoro, P A ^b   Palangana, A J ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calamitic nematic phase; Critical exponent; Reentrant isotropic phase

Indexed keywords

ISING MODEL;

CALAMITIC NEMATIC; CRITICAL EXPONENT; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; NEMATIC ISOTROPIC PHASE TRANSITION; OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE; REENTRANT ISOTROPIC; SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ISING MODEL;

TEMPERATURE;

LAURIC ACID; POTASSIUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 8444242506     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.08.066     Document Type: Article

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