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Kinetics of Phase Transition in an Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced by a Uniform Temperature Field: Growth in One Dimension

X. Y. Wang, Jian-feng Li, Eliezer Gurarie, S. Fan, T. Kyu, M. E. Neubert, S. S. Keast, and Charles Rosenblatt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4478 – Published 18 May 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.

  • Received 27 October 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4478

©1998 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

X. Y. Wang1, Jian-feng Li2,*, Eliezer Gurarie2, S. Fan1, T. Kyu1, M. E. Neubert3, S. S. Keast3, and Charles Rosenblatt2

  • 1Institute of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325
  • 2Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
  • 3Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

  • *Present address: Reveo Corp., Hawthorne, N.Y.

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Vol. 80, Iss. 20 — 18 May 1998

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