We apply a recently developed technique to determine adapted coordinates for the sixth degree Landau-deGennes 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.
On the isotropic-biaxial phase transition in nematic liquid crystals / G. Gaeta. - In: EUROPHYSICS LETTERS. - ISSN 1286-4854. - 112:4(2015 Nov). [10.1209/0295-5075/112/46002]
On the isotropic-biaxial phase transition in nematic liquid crystals
G. Gaeta
2015
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We apply a recently developed technique to determine adapted coordinates for the sixth degree Landau-deGennes 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.
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