Symmetry-adapted molecular-field theory for thermotropic biaxial liquid crystals and its expansion at low temperature
We have analyzed some properties of mean field theories of thermotropic biaxial liquid crystals with ($D_{2h}$) symmetry. The study consists of two parts. In the first part we reexamine the standard theory due to Virga and coworkers. We introduce a convenient symmetry-adapted parameterization which...
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2013-05.
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