Magnetic-birefringence determination of the tilt susceptibility of the smectic-A—smectic-Cphase transition in butoxybenzylidene heptylaniline
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 26 (3) , 1809-1811
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.26.1809
Abstract
We have used magnetically induced birefringence to determine the divergence of the susceptibility for the smectic- order parameter in butoxybenzylidene heptylaniline (40.7). The critical exponent was 0.98 ± 0.04, consistent with a mean-field model and the Ginzburg criterion.
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