Symmetry Adapted Molecular-Field Theory for Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals and Its Expansion at Low Temperature

DOI10.1137/120897237zbMath1350.82008OpenAlexW2048512382MaRDI QIDQ2850684

Stefano Turzi, T. J. Sluckin

Publication date: 30 September 2013

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/369792/1/Turzi%2526Sluckin2013postprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsliquid crystalsinvariance and symmetry properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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