The search for a Lifshitz point in a single-component liquid crystalline system: A high pressure study of 50.6

Abstract

The pressure-temperature diagram of N-(4-n-pentyloxybenzylidene)-4'-n-hexylaniline has been investigated up to 8 kbar. The smectic C-smectic A and smectic A-nematic phase boundaries converge and nearly meet, indicating that a Lifshitz point is likely to occur at a higher pressure.