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Kinetics of Phase Transition in An Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced by a Uniform Temperature Field: Growth in One Dimension
Physical Review Letters
  • X. Y. Wang
  • Jian-feng Li
  • Eliezer Gurarie
  • S. Fan
  • Thein Kyu, University of Akron Main Campus
  • S. S. Keast
  • Charles Rosenblatt
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Article
Publication Date
5-1-1998
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Abstract

It is experimentally demonstrated that a transition from a synclinic to an anticlinic liquid crystal phase occurs via stable domain wall propagation after quenching in a uniform temperature field. Such a one-dimensional growth may be explained in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. The experiment provides the first example of free, one-dimensional growth in a system subjected to a pure and uniform temperature field.

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X. Y. Wang, Jian-feng Li, Eliezer Gurarie, S. Fan, et al.. "Kinetics of Phase Transition in An Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced by a Uniform Temperature Field: Growth in One Dimension" Physical Review Letters Vol. 80 Iss. 20 (1998) p. 4478 - 4481
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thein_kyu/24/