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Article
Kinetics of Phase Transition in An Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced by a Uniform Temperature Field: Growth in One Dimension
Physical Review Letters
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-1998
Disciplines
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.
Citation Information
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/