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Novel Universality Classes in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Amit K Chattopadhyay, Prabir K Mukherjee
Starting from a Langevin formulation of a thermally perturbed nonlinear elastic model of the ferroelectric smectic-C (SmC) liquid crystals in the presence of an electric f…
cond-mat.soft2017
Effect of magnetic nanoparticles on the nematic-smectic-A phase transition
Prabir K Mukherjee, Amit K Chattopadhyay
Recent experiments on mixed liquid crystals have highlighted the hugely significant role of ferromagnetic nanoparticle impurities in defining the nematic-smectic-A phase transition…