Molecular model for de Vries type smectic A - smectic C phase transition in liquid crystals
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We develop a theory of Smectic A - Smectic C phase transition with anomalously weak smectic layer contraction. We construct a phenomenological description of this transition by generalizing the Chen-Lubensky model. Using a mean-field molecular model, we demonstrate that a relatively simple interaction potential suffices to describe the transition. The theoretical results are in excellent agreement with experimental data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701555,
title = {Molecular model for de Vries type smectic A - smectic C phase transition in liquid crystals},
author = {M. V. Gorkunov and M. A. Osipov and F. Giesselmann and T. J. Sluckin and J. P. F. Lagerwall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701555},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett