Articles
Biaxial smectic-A∗ phase and its possible misidentification as a smectic-Cα* phase, Physical Review E (2011)
The biaxial smectic-A* (Sm-AB*) phase, appearing in the phase sequence Sm-A*–Sm-AB*–Sm-C*, is analyzed using Landau...
de Vries Behavior in Smectics near a Biaxiality Induced Smectic A - Smectic C Tricritical Point, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals (2009)
We show that a generalized Landau theory for the smectic A and C phases exhibits...
De Vries Behavior of the Electroclinic Effect in the Smectic-A* Phase Near a Biaxiality-Induced Smectic-A*–Smectic-C* Tricritical Point, Physical Review E (2009)
Using a generalized Landau theory involving orientational, layering, tilt, and biaxial order parameters we analyze...
De Vries Behavior in Smectic Liquid Crystals Near a Biaxiality-Induced Smectic-A-Smectic-C Tricritical Point, Physical Review E (2008)
We show that a generalized Landau theory for the smectic-A-smectic-C (Sm- A -Sm- C )...
Disordering to Order: de Vries Behavior from a Landau Theory for Smectic Phases (with Daniel Hernandez, Staci Pearson, and John Toner), Physical Review Letters (2007)
We show that Landau theory for the isotropic (I), nematic (N), smectic-A, and smectic-C phases...