scholarly journals Topological defects and geometric memory across the nematic–smectic A liquid crystal phase transition

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahram Suh ◽  
Min-Jun Gim ◽  
Daniel Beller ◽  
Dong Ki Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Topological Defects ◽  
Crystal Phase ◽  
Liquid Crystal Phase ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Crystal Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal Phase Transition

We study transformations of self-organised defect arrays at the nematic–smectic A liquid crystal phase transition, and show that these defect configurations are correlated, or “remembered”, across the phase transition.

Smectic A-Cholesteric liquid crystal phase transition: A density study

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 835-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.L. Duarte ◽  
A.J. Palangana ◽  
R. Itri ◽  
A.R. Sampaio ◽  
A.A. Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Cholesteric Liquid Crystal ◽  
Crystal Phase ◽  
Liquid Crystal Phase ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Crystal Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal Phase Transition ◽  
Density Study

Evidence for a liquid crystal phase transition in two-dimensional electrons in high Landau levels

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 377-380
Author(s):  
K. B. Cooper ◽  
M. P. Lilly ◽  
J. P. Eisenstein ◽  
L. N. Pfeiffer ◽  
K. W. West
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Landau Levels ◽  
Crystal Phase ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Liquid Crystal Phase ◽  
Stripe Phase ◽  
Stripe Order ◽  
Crystal Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal Phase Transition

Transport measurements of high-mohility two-dimensional electron systems at low temperatures have revealed a large resistance anisotropy around half-filling of excited Landau levels. These results have been attributed to electronic stripe-phase formation with spontaneously broken orientational symmetry. Mechanisms which are known to break the orientational symmetry include poorly-understood crystal structure effects and an in-plane magnetic field, $B_{||}$. Here we report that a large $B_{||}$ also causes the transport anisotropy to persist up to much higher temperatures. In this regime, we find that the anisotropic resistance scales sublinearly with $B_{||}/T$. These observations support the proposal that the transition from anisotropic to isotropic transport reflects a liquid crystal phase transition where local stripe order persists even in the isotropic regime.

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