Hierarchy of orientational phases and axial anisotropies in the gauge theoretical description of generalized nematic liquid crystals.
Liu K, Nissinen J, de Boer J, Slager RJ, Zaanen J.
Liu K, et al.
Phys Rev E. 2017 Feb;95(2-1):022704. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022704. Epub 2017 Feb 28.
Phys Rev E. 2017.
PMID: 28297940
We discuss how a particular class of nematic phase transitions related to axial point groups can be efficiently captured within a recently proposed gauge theoretical formulation of generalized nematics [K. Liu, J. Nissinen, R.-J. Slager, K. Wu, and J. Zaanen, …
We discuss how a particular class of nematic phase transitions related to axial point groups can be efficiently captured within a recently p …