A model for the orientational order in liquid crystals
@article{Ghosh1984AMF, title={A model for the orientational order in liquid crystals}, author={S K Ghosh}, journal={Il Nuovo Cimento D}, year={1984}, volume={4}, pages={229-244} }
SummaryA model for the orientational-order parameter in liquid crystals from the microscopic viewpoint and in conformity with its current understanding well established in the field of phase transitions is proposed here. This model has a close resemblance with the original ideas of Maier and Saupe. However, it is independent of the nature of molecules, rigid or flexible, and enables us to describe a phase with a single-order parameter tensor
$$\mathop S\limits^ \leftrightarrow$$
as expected…
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