Stability and instability of an uniaxial alignment against biaxial distortions in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/jnet.1992.17.2.153zbMath0796.76005OpenAlexW2053554890MaRDI QIDQ1261714

W. Wiese, Paul J. Kaiser, Siegfried Hess

Publication date: 16 September 1993

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1992.17.2.153

zbMATH Keywords

external field transition temperature Landau-De Gennes potential negative dielectric anisotropy nonlinear relaxation equation positive dielectric anisotropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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Cites Work

Relaxation of the alignment tensor in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals in the presence of an external fields

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