Influence of Pressure on Smectic A-Nematic Phase Transition
Soft Condensed Matter
2008-02-03 v1
Abstract
We propose a Landau-de Gennes phenomenological model to describe the pressure induced smectic A-nematic phase transition. The pressure induced smectic A phase transitions are discussed for varying coupling between orientational and translational order parameter. Increasing the pressure, the first order nematic-smectic A transition becomes second order at a tricritical point which agrees fairly with available experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9708044,
title = {Influence of Pressure on Smectic A-Nematic Phase Transition},
author = {Prabir K. Mukherjee and Kisor Mukhopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9708044},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figure, LaTeX format,e-mail:[email protected], Submitted to Phys. Rev. E