Soft-Mode Interpretation of the Pretransitional Scattering from Liquid Crystals
- 1 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 8 (5) , 2763-2764
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.8.2763
Abstract
An explanation of the pretransitional scattering from liquid crystals is presented in terms of a dynamical concept of the soft mode.Keywords
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