Reentrances below the smectic-phase and octuply reentrant liquid crystals
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (1) , 288-291
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.288
Abstract
For the first time reentrances below smectic are obtained with the molecular "spin-gas" model of liquid crystals, in agreement with recent experiments. The model further predicts sextuple (and octuple) reentrance, , as temperature is lowered. Two distinct reentrance mechanisms are found: microscopic frustration of dipoles and competing short-range orders.
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