LIQUIDS, CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS.

Joel D. Brock; Robert J. Birgeneau; J. David Litster; Amnon Aharony

doi:10.1063/1.881175

LIQUIDS, CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS.

Joel D. Brock, Robert J. Birgeneau, J. David Litster, Amnon Aharony

School of Physics and Astronomy

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The article discusses the concepts developed to explain melting in two dimensions and multicritical phenomena in three dimensions, which led to the modeling of smectic liquid crystals. These models help in the understanding of such physical systems as rare as earth magnets, superconductors and biological systems. For many decades, physicists have realized that an intermediate state of matter is possible. In such a state the atoms or molecules are distributed at random, as in fluid or glass, but the system is orientationally anisotropic on a macroscopic scale, as in a crystalline solid. INSET: Smectic phases..

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	52-59
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physics Today
Volume	42
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881175
State	Published - 1 Jul 1989

Keywords

FUSION (Phase transformation)
LIQUIDS
LIQUID crystals
CRYSTALS
SUPERCONDUCTORS
FLUIDS
LIGHT sources

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