A detailed review is given of the progress that has been made toward the understanding of the Nematic-Smectic A identical point and the Nematic-Smectic A-Smectic C multicritical point. Other known or hypothetical liquid crystal multicritical points are reviewed briefly
Restricted Access.Liquid crystals represent states of matter that are intermediate between the cryst...
Continuous phase transitions are characterized by universality: thermodynamic observables that diver...
We further pursue the analysis of a mean-field model recently proposed by Sonnet et al. [Phys. Rev. ...
The first observation of the nematic-smectic-A-smectic-C multicritical point in a single-component l...
Restricted Access.We report here the results of our high pressure optical and DTA studies on the com...
We present here a mean field model for the nematic-smectic A-smectic C coexistence of a liquid cryst...
We present here a mean eld model for the nematic-smectic A-smectic C coex-istence of a liquid crysta...
A high-resolution temperature-concentration diagram and detailed differential scanning calorimetry d...
Restricted Access. Proceedings of the 15th IUPAP conference on statistical physics, 1984The followin...
A new Landau-type phenomenological free-energy function to describe the nematic-smectic-A transition...
We propose a phenomenological model to describe the tricritical behavior of the nematic to smectic- ...
High resolution X-ray scattering experiments, which measure the critical smectic A fluctuations in t...
Liquid crystals is a class of materials possessing properties from both solids and fluids. Similar t...
Restricted Access. Paper presented at the 9th international conference on liquid crystals held at Ba...
We report here the results of our high pressure optical and DTA studies on the compound 4(4-n-decylo...
Restricted Access.Liquid crystals represent states of matter that are intermediate between the cryst...
Continuous phase transitions are characterized by universality: thermodynamic observables that diver...
We further pursue the analysis of a mean-field model recently proposed by Sonnet et al. [Phys. Rev. ...
The first observation of the nematic-smectic-A-smectic-C multicritical point in a single-component l...
Restricted Access.We report here the results of our high pressure optical and DTA studies on the com...
We present here a mean field model for the nematic-smectic A-smectic C coexistence of a liquid cryst...
We present here a mean eld model for the nematic-smectic A-smectic C coex-istence of a liquid crysta...
A high-resolution temperature-concentration diagram and detailed differential scanning calorimetry d...
Restricted Access. Proceedings of the 15th IUPAP conference on statistical physics, 1984The followin...
A new Landau-type phenomenological free-energy function to describe the nematic-smectic-A transition...
We propose a phenomenological model to describe the tricritical behavior of the nematic to smectic- ...
High resolution X-ray scattering experiments, which measure the critical smectic A fluctuations in t...
Liquid crystals is a class of materials possessing properties from both solids and fluids. Similar t...
Restricted Access. Paper presented at the 9th international conference on liquid crystals held at Ba...
We report here the results of our high pressure optical and DTA studies on the compound 4(4-n-decylo...
Restricted Access.Liquid crystals represent states of matter that are intermediate between the cryst...
Continuous phase transitions are characterized by universality: thermodynamic observables that diver...
We further pursue the analysis of a mean-field model recently proposed by Sonnet et al. [Phys. Rev. ...