Critique of the "beyond-mean-field" theory of the isotropic-nematic transition
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 23 (4), 2075-2076
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.23.2075
Abstract
It is demonstrated that the theory presented in a recent letter by Lin which goes "beyond mean field" in the treatment of the isotropic-nematic transition is in less satisfactory agreement with experiment than is the prevailing mean-field theory.Keywords
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