The Smectic A to C Phase Transition in Isotropic Disordered Environments
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study theoretically the smectic A to C phase transition in isotropic disordered environments. Surprisingly, we find that, as in the clean smectic A to C phase transition, smectic layer fluctuations do not affect the nature of the transition, in spite of the fact that they are much stronger in the presence of the disorder. As a result, we find that the universality class of the transition is that of the "Random field XY model" (RFXY).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1209.3069,
title = {The Smectic A to C Phase Transition in Isotropic Disordered Environments},
author = {Leiming Chen and John Toner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3069},
year = {2015}
}