Pretransitional behavior of electrooptic Kerr effect in liquid thymol
Abstract
Melting/freezing are canonical examples of discontinuous phase transitions, for which no pretransitional effects in the liquid phase are expected.For the solid phase, weak premelting effects are evidenced. This report shows long-range, critical-like, pretransitional effect in liquid thymol detected in Electrooptic Kerr effect (EKE) studies. Notable is the negative sign of EKE pretransitional anomaly. Studies are supplemented by high-resolution by dielectric constant temperature-related scan, which revealed a weak premelting effect in the solid phase. Both EKE and dielectric constant show a 'crossover' change ca. 10K above the melting temperature. It can be recognized as the hallmark of the challenging Liquid-Liquid transition phenomenon .
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@article{arxiv.2207.11494,
title = {Pretransitional behavior of electrooptic Kerr effect in liquid thymol},
author = {Aleksander Szpakiewicz Szatan and Sylwester J. Rzoska and Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11494},
year = {2022}
}
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18 pages, 6 figures