Universality of the reentrant-nematic–smectic-C–smectic-Aand nematic–smectic-A–smectic-Cmulticritical points
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 34 (3) , 2561-2563
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.34.2561
Abstract
It is shown that by tuning the experimentally observable critical region, singularities of the phase boundaries can be observed in the immediate vicinity of the reentrant-nematic–smectic-C–smectic-A multicritical point. The exponents evaluated from these singularities are found to be identical to the universal exponents associated with the nematic–smectic-A–smectic-C multicritical point.Keywords
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