Influence of Pressure on Smectic A-Nematic Phase Transition

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We propose a Landau-de Gennes phenomenological model to describe the pressure induced smectic A-nematic phase transition. The pressure induced smectic A phase transitions are discussed for varying coupling between orientational and translational order parameter. Increasing the pressure, the first order nematic-smectic A transition becomes second order at a tricritical point which agrees fairly with available experimental results.
10 pages, no figure, LaTeX format,e-mail:kisor@juphys.ernet.in, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E

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Soft Condensed Matter

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151886

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9708044
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