On the isotropic-biaxial phase transition in nematic liquid crystals
Mathematical Physics
2017-11-20 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
math.MP
Classical Physics
Abstract
We apply a recently developed technique to determine adapted coordinates for the sixth degree Landau-deGennes potential, in which the potential is specially simple, to analyze the possibility of a direct transition between the fully symmetric state and a biaxial phase in nematic liquid crystals. {Our results confirm, with simpler computations, results by Allender and Longa.
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@article{arxiv.1511.08998,
title = {On the isotropic-biaxial phase transition in nematic liquid crystals},
author = {Giuseppe Gaeta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08998},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
To appear in EuroPhys. Lett