Smectic-A to -C phase transition in isotropic disordered environments.
作者信息
Chen Leiming, Toner John
机构信息
College of Science, The China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou Jiangsu, 221116, People's Republic of China.
出版信息
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2013 Apr;87(4):042501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042501. Epub 2013 Apr 2.
PMID:23679430
Abstract
We study theoretically the smectic-A to -C phase transition in isotropic disordered environments. Surprisingly, we find that, as in the clean smectic-A to -C phase transition, smectic layer fluctuations do not affect the nature of the transition, in spite of the fact that they are much stronger in the presence of the disorder. As a result, we find that the universality class of the transition is that of the "random field XY model" (RFXY).
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