Nematic-Isotropic Transition in Liquid Crystals
- 19 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (21), 1604-1607
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.1604
Abstract
Correlation functions and the Cotton-Mouton coefficient are calculated for liquid crystals beyond the mean-field approximation. My results in the context of a first-order transition are compared with the recent experiments of Keyes and Shane for N-[-methoxybenzylidine]--butylaniline (MBBA) connecting with the possible tricritical nature of the nematic-isotropic transition.
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