Nematic-Smectic--Smectic-Multicritical Point
- 31 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (9), 664-667
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.664
Abstract
A study of the phase diagram near the nematic-smectic--smectic- multicritical point and of nematic-smectic- transition entropies leads to the conclusion that this is not a Lifshitz point. It is shown that a biaxial second-rank tensor order parameter may be needed.
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