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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"biaxial nematic"”.
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A biaxial nematic phase in a thermotropic liquid crystalline side-chain polymer : a deuterium NMR study
… axis and therefore support the formation of a biaxial nematic phase, which had been theoretically predicted 35 years earlier. The identification of this special phase being characterized by a three-dimensional orientational order, was accomplished by angular dependent measurements of the …
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The role of topological defects and textures in the kinetics of phase ordering
… in nature. The two systems investigated are (i) nematic liquid crystals, which support topologically stable abelian (in the uniaxial nematic case) and non-abelian (in the biaxial nematic case) singular defects, and (ii) the 0(3)-symmetric vector (i.e., Heisenberg-type) system in 2 spatial …
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The role of topological defects and textures in the kinetics of phase ordering
… in nature. The two systems investigated are (i) nematic liquid crystals, which support topologically stable abelian (in the uniaxial nematic case) and non-abelian (in the biaxial nematic case) singular defects, and (ii) the O(3)-symmetric vector (i.e., Heisenberg-type) system in 2 spatial …
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Quantum liquid crystal phases and unconventional magnetism in electronic and atomic fermi systems
… of the the McMillan- de Gennes theory of nematic-smectic thermal phase transition of classical liquid crystals to describe an analogous quantum phase transition in metallic systems. This theory qualitatively can also describe similar quantum phase transitions in high Tc superconductors. …