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EPL
Volume 112, Number 4, November 2015
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| Article Number | 46002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/46002 | |
| Published online | 10 December 2015 | |
On the isotropic-biaxial phase transition in nematic liquid crystals
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano - via Saldini 50, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Received: 29 April 2015
Accepted: 17 November 2015
We apply a recently developed technique to determine adapted coordinates for the sixth degree Landau-de Gennes potential, in which the potential is specially simple, to analyze the possibility of a direct transition between the fully symmetric state and a biaxial phase in nematic liquid crystals. Our results confirm, with simpler computations, results by Allender and Longa.
PACS: 64.70.M- – Transitions in liquid crystals / 05.70.Fh – Phase transitions: general studies / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
© EPLA, 2015
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