Application of the Landau approximation to the nematic phase of liquid crystals
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 14 (1), 466-468
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.14.466
Abstract
New accurate diamagnetic measurements of the order parameter, just below the nematic-isotropic transition temperature , are given for two nematic liquid crystals. The variations with temperature of the order parameter are described well by theory based on the Landau expansion of the free energy. The subsequent determinations of and the latent heat are in good agreement with values obtained by an independent way.
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