Breakdown of the Landau theory in the vicinity of the nematic-isotropic transition |
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| Authors: | B. Malraison Y. Poggi J.C. Filippini |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratoire d''Electrostatique, CNRS, 166 X - 38042 - Grenoble Cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | Very sensitive Cotton-Mouton and Kerr constant measurements have been performed in the isotropic phase of nematic liquid crystals very close to transition.They show systematic deviations from the mean field behaviour, which possibly connects to the appearance of a critical regime. |
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