Some recent studies of liquid crystals: A review

dc.contributor.author	Chandrasekhar, S.
dc.date.accessioned	2007-06-19T09:34:22Z
dc.date.available	2007-06-19T09:34:22Z
dc.date.issued	1984-03
dc.description	Restricted Access. Proceedings of the 15th IUPAP conference on statistical physics, 1984	en
dc.description.abstract	The following topics are reviewed briefly: (i) The first experimental determination of the decrease in the smectic A-nematic transition temperature brought about by a twist deformation, an effect which is the analog of the influence of a magnetic field on the superconductor-normal metal transition; (ii) the similarity between the hydrodynamics of cholesteric liquid crystals and superfluid hydrodynamics, and some of its consequences, e.g., the possibility of a temperature wave attending second sound in the cholesteric phase; and (iii) the nematicsmectic A-smectic C multicritical point.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Statistical Physics, 1984, Vol.34, p883-893	en
dc.identifier.issn	0022-4715
dc.identifier.issn	1572-9613 (Online)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2985
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Springer	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01009447	en
dc.rights	1984 Springer	en
dc.subject	Smectic A-nematic transition	en
dc.subject	hydrodynamics of cholesterics	en
dc.subject	nematic-smectic A-smectic C multicritical point	en
dc.title	Some recent studies of liquid crystals: A review	en
dc.type	Article	en

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