New alternative for thebicritical point
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 37 (1) , 303-305
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.37.303
Abstract
A high-resolution temperature-concentration diagram and detailed differential scanning calorimetry data near an expected bicritical point in a binary liquid-crystal system are presented. These results show that the bicritical point has split into a critical end point and a tricritical point, a situation which has not been predicted by any of the theories so far.
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